William Rees-Mogg Quotes
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The Treasury model of the economy has been pretty well wrong on everything for many years
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John Prescott has made the government look greedy and ridiculous. Labour is seen as the corrupt party. The government has been fulfilling the old rule that oppositions do not win elections, governments lose them.
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Anyone who has walked through the deserted palaces of Versailles or Vienna realise how much of a part of the life of a nation is lost when a monarchy is abolished. If buckingham palace and windsor castle were transformed into museums, if one politician competed against another for president of the republic, Britain would be a sadder and less interesting place. Our politicians are not men such as could challenge more than a thousand years of history.
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The United States may have retained more of the intellectual imprint of the British 18th century than Britain itself.
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Governments lie; bankers lie; even auditors sometimes lie: gold tells the truth.
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Lord Rees-Mogg argues that the time for reconciliation in Tibet is passing with the looming departure of its spiritual leader.
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War on the cheap is always a rotten policy.
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