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Nationalism can take on some very ugly shapes. It looks as if as many crimes will be committed in its name as in the name of Religion or of Liberty.

— Stanley Baldwin

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To me, England is the country, and the country is England.

The political career properly viewed is really a kind of Ministry.

There is a saying as old as the Greeks that it is more important to form good habits than to frame good laws.

It is to moralise the world that we all desire.

A free trade unionism is a bulwark of popular liberty.

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Our country – In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right, and always successful, right or wrong.

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No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

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