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The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.
It is no use blowing the trumpet for the charge, and then looking around to find nobody following.
[On hearing Lady Mountbatten’s anti-monarchical views] How easy it seems for a semi-royal millionnairess, who has exhausted all the pleasures of money and position, to turn almost Communist!
The Confederacy [i.e., the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865] has been done to death by politicians.
All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
To succeed pre-eminently in English public life it is necessary to conform either to the popular image of a bookie or of a
[On Friedrich Hayek’s Road to Serfdom] A plan to resist all planning may be better than its opposite, but it belongs to the same style of politics.
Politics is largely a matter of heart. R. A. Butler (1902-1982), British Conservative politician,
[On the popularity of Margaret Thatcher] The further you got from Britain, the more admired you found she was.
