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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.
The greatest gift of any statesman rests not in knowing what concessions to make, but recognizing when to make them.
I always voted at my party’s call, And I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
If politicians lived on praise and thanks they’d be forced into some other line of business.
The model of a modern Prime Minister would be a kind of grotesque composite freak
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There is but one way for a newspaperman to look at a politician, and that is down.
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A politician was a person with whose politics you did not agree. When you did agree, he was a statesman.
A young man who isn’t a Socialist hasn’t got a heart; an old man who is a Socialist hasn’t got a head.
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Politics is a battle against process, just as life is.
