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Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.
If you want to get along, go along.
Politicians who wish to succeed must be prepared to dissemble, at times to lie.
The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.
[Notice kept on his desk while working on his biography of Lord Mountbatten] Remember.
We are here to consult the interests and not to obey the will of the people, if we honestly believe that will conflicts with those interests.
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There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.
Welfare became a term of opprobrium—a contentious, often vindictive area of political conflict
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety)
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[On being prime minister] Sometimes the strain is awful, you have to resort to Jane Austen.
