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The primary object of all government at the present moment is to maintain the Union, to maintain it not for a session or for a Parliament, but for our time.

— Lord Randolph Churchill

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How many more of England's heroes—how many more of England's best and bravest—are to be sacrificed to the Moloch of Mid Lothian?

One of the greatest of Romans, when asked what were his politics, replied, "Imperium et libertas." That would not make a bad programme for a British Ministry.

Balfourism acts like a blister on Ireland and the Irish, and has the bad and good effects which such treatment generally produces. A too protracted application of the blister might do much harm.

The Duty of an Opposition is to oppose.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

To tell the truth I don't know myself what Tory Democracy is. But I believe it is principally opportunism.

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Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.

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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

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Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

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