"Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay."
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"Certainly Manchester is the most wonderful city of modern times!"
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"London is a roost for every bird."
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"Apologies only account for that which they do not alter."
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"Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding characteristic - whether Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition, whether preaching, praying, speechifying or scribbling - never a gentleman."
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"There can be no economy where there is no efficiency."
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"No enemy is indeed so terrible as a man of genius."
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"Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy."
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"I do not like giving advice: it is incurring an unnecessary responsibility."
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"The greatest of all evils is a weak government"
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"I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?"
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"If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. You will in due season have great impatience of public burdens, combined in due season with great increase of public expenditure. You will in due season have wars entered into from passion and not from reason; and you will in due season submit to peace ignominiously sought and ignominiously obtained, which will diminish your authority and perhaps endanger your independence. You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete."
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"To achieve what you want, you have to be stronger than those around you"
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"Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites."
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"If you want to be a leader of people, you must learn to watch events."
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"Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing."
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"Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society."
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"With words we govern men."
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"For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution, and species of property in the country. Occasionally they have varied this state of civil warfare by perpetrating some job which outraged public opinion, or by stumbling into mistakes which have been always discreditable, and sometimes ruinous. All this they call a policy, and seem quite proud of it; but the country has, I think, made up its mind to close this career of plundering and blundering."
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"Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular."
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