More people deserted our party and we have never recovered.

I should, therefore, be a hypocrite, if I were to say I have any particular repugnance to a system of education coupled with religious instruction.

But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit.

But I think traveling around and going around the world and making arrangements for moving around is the most difficult thing, ‘cuz you don’t know what’s going to happen.

But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half.

The whole of the situation of the Conservative Party today springs from that night when they dismissed the best prime minister the country had had since Churchill.

I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments,...

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

I am determined to go through the horror of this world.

For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure.

What it meant to me: a happy life, of course, companionship, of course. A common objective, I think.

In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined...

I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this...

They get, you know, whatever they want from their earnings, and their earnings go into their own company.

From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war.

I do not at all have the mind of a bully… in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion, domineering and rather cowardly. I would hope that none of those terms could be fairly...

It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war.

Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.

Well, I don’t know about the dizzy height, but I always thought they were going to be pretty big.

I am no party man in this matter in any degree; and if I have any objection to the motion it is this, that whereas it is a motion to inquire into the manufacturing distress...

I made 50 million bucks yesterday. That’s a flameout I could get used to.

The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated.

For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap.

Well, then we got to know each other and eventually worked out a bit of idea of management.

I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of...

We’re going to try and recruit the very best people we can and produce the best papers we can, and publish them to the highest standards we can.

The problem to solve is, whether a single or a double government would be most advantageous; and, in considering that point, I am met by this difficulty – that I cannot see that the present...

Luck relies on chance, labor on character.

And certainly don’t get caught by the press having too much to drink, you now, that sort of thing.

I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides.

I don’t go around trying to stir up foreign wars.

Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out.

A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment.

I don’t know what reception I’m at, but for God’s sake give me a gin and tonic.

I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance – the enormous and burdensome standing...

It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.

You may keep Turkey on the map of Europe, you may call the country by the name of Turkey if you like, but do not think you can keep up the Mahommedan rule in the...

People who eat potatoes will never be able to perform their abilities in whatever job they choose to have.

I think she was ready to go. Not to be kicked out. Go at the top. Undefeated.

I cannot separate the finances of India from those of England. If the finances of the Indian Government receive any severe and irreparable check, will not the resources of England be called upon to meet...

The individual source of the statistics may easily be the weakest link.

This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors but that of the patronage, there is really no government vested in them...

I wasn’t absolutely too sure where the Falklands was, and I didn’t want to make a bloody fool of myself.

I have been particularly struck with the overwhelming evidence which is given as to the fitness of the natives of India for high offices and employments.

The Government are very keen on amassing statistics – they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams.

On the contrary, all the world would point to that nation as violating a treaty, by going to war with a country with whom they had engaged to enter into arbitration.

It would have been a very, very good thing if the next election after Margaret went we had lost.

I have sat on the army, navy, and ordnance committees, and I see no limit to the increase of our armaments under the existing system.

Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin.

At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword.