William Rees-Mogg quotes
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“Governments lie; bankers lie; even auditors sometimes lie: gold tells the truth.”
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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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“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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“War on the cheap is always a rotten policy.”
-- William Rees-MoggSource : Daily Mail, October 4, 2009.
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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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“The Treasury model of the economy has been pretty well wrong on everything for many years”
-- William Rees-Mogg
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Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 69, 1895.
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“Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.”
Source : "Boundaries and Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.
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“He has a heart of gold - only harder.”
Source : "Fictional character: Oliver Niles". "A Star Is Born", www.imdb.com. 1937.
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“A road need not be paved in gold to find treasures at its end.”
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