A series of congratulatory regrets.
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An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.
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Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
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First, without reference to England, looking at all countries, I say that it is the first duty of the Minister, and the first interest of the State, to maintain a balance between the two great branches of national industry; that is a principle which has been recognised by all great Ministers for the last two hundred years... Why we should maintain that balance between the two great branches of national industry, involves political considerations—social considerations, affecting the happiness, prosperity, and morality of the people, as well as the stability of the State. But I go further; I say that in England we are bound to do more—I repeat what I have repeated before, that in this country there are special reasons why we should not only maintain the balance between the two branches of our national industry, but why we should give a preponderance... to the agricultural branch; and the reason is, because in England we have a territorial Constitution. We have thrown upon the land the revenues of the Church, the administration of justice, and the estate of the poor; and this has been done, not to gratify the pride, or pamper the luxury of the proprietors of the land, but because, in a territorial Constitution, you, and those whom you have succeeded, have found the only security for self-government—the only barrier against that centralising system which has taken root in other countries.
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Though lions to their enemies they were lambs to their friends.
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All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Hope)
I don't wish to go down to posterity talking bad grammar.
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My objection to Liberalism is this: that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind--namely, politics--of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
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Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything.
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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
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