Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery Quotes
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The Empire is a Commonwealth of nations.
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Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.
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We regard our parties as interesting groups of gladiators.
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A man will blithely do in politics what he would kick a man downstairs for in ordinary life.
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Do not first announce action, and then, when you are unable to take action, withdraw, because you will only find yourself in the same position as now, plus a public and humiliating confession of impotence.
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How marvelous it all is! Built not by saints and angels, but the work of men's hands; cemented with men's honest blood and with a world of tears, welded by the best brains of centuries past; not without the taint and reproach incidental to all human work, but constructed on the whole with pure and splendid purpose. Human, and yet not wholly human -- for the most heedless and the most cynical must see the finger of the Divine.
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Lloyd George is a one-eyed fellow in blinkers.
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Lord Randolph Churchill was the chief mourner at his own protracted funeral.
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Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous.
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Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
- Born: May 7, 1847
- Died: May 21, 1929
- Occupation: Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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