Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden quotes
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“It would be desirable if every Government, when it comes to power, should have its old speeches burnt.”
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“There are no unemployed, either in Russia or in Dartmoor jail, and for the same reason.”
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“Truth, it has been said, is the first casualty of war.”
-- Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount SnowdenSource : "Truth and the War". Book by Edmund Dene Morel. Introduction, p. 9, 1916.
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“Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.”
Source : 1931 'Too Much!'.
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“Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.”
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“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.”
Source : Aaron Copland (1959). “The pleasures of music”
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“Nothing in life was as precious as this woman. It never would be. I’d found my happiness.”
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“I hoped there would be a better process. But it is final -- I will not participate .”
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“Faith does not increase, nor does it decrease; because a diminution in it would be unbelief.”
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