Occupation: Former Leader Of The House Of Commons Birth: December 21, 1804 Death: April 19, 1881
I rather like bad wine; one gets so bored with good wine..
A nation will not count the sacrifice it makes, if it supposes it is engaged in a struggle for its fame, its influence and its existence..
The Jews are a nervous people. Nineteen centuries of Christian love have taken a toll..
No enemy is indeed so terrible as a man of genius..
Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation..
The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the pu….
The indulgence in grief is a blunder..
Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief..
Rothschild is the lord and master of the money markerts of the world and virtually lord and master of everything else..
We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future a….
To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence..
One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission..
The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. It was not granted by monarchs, it was not gai….
The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world..
Consider Ireland.... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world….
Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense..
A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law..
The British people, being subject to fogs, require grave statesmen..
The feathered arrow of satire has oft been wet with the heart's blood of its victims..
I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude..
Almost everything that is great has been done by youth..