Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury famous quotes

It is one of the misfortunes of our political system that parties are formed more with reference to controversies that are gone by than to the controversies which these parties have actually to decide.
-- Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

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One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.
-- Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

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Industry cannot flow unless cpaital is confident, and capital will not be confident as long as it fears that Parliament will meddle with it and walk off with its profits.
-- Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

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I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman - whose utility would disappear if there were no criminals.
-- Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

#Criminals #Disappear #Schemes

It's Friday and I'm ready to swing. Pick up my girls and hit the party scene.

If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'What's the party going on right now that I should be going to?

There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend - I am a guilty party here - to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.

Tonight Illinois has set a tone for the nation, that we won't stand idle hoping that our economy improves. This is a brand new day for the Illinois Republican Party.

No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.

Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence as living examples of the same... Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social dis-ease.

Calvinism is an all-embracing system of principles... It is rooted in a form of religion which was peculiarly its own, and form that specific religious consciousness there was developed first a particular theology, then a special church-order, and then a given form for political and social life.

I understood that pain was real and sometimes things didn't last. Sometimes you just had to enjoy it while it lasts and cherish it when it's gone.

When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.

There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.