Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery Quotes

• A man will blithely do in politics what he would kick a man downstairs for in ordinary life.

  Archibald Primrose, V Conde de Rosebery

  Men, Ordinary, Politics

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• The Empire is a Commonwealth of nations.

  Archibald Primrose, V Conde de Rosebery

  Empires, British, Commonwealth

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• How marvelous it all is! Built not by saints and angels, but the work of men's hands; cemented with men's honest blood and with a world of tears, welded by the best brains of centuries past; not without the taint and reproach incidental to all human work, but constructed on the whole with pure and splendid purpose. Human, and yet not wholly human -- for the most heedless and the most cynical must see the finger of the Divine.

  Archibald Primrose, V Conde de Rosebery

  Angel, Past, Men

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• Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous.

  Archibald Primrose, V Conde de Rosebery

  People, Thrifty, Frugality

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• Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.

  Archibald Primrose, V Conde de Rosebery

  Photography, Silence, Records

  "Life of Pitt" by Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, 1891.

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• Do not first announce action, and then, when you are unable to take action, withdraw, because you will only find yourself in the same position as now, plus a public and humiliating confession of impotence.

  Archibald Primrose, V Conde de Rosebery

  Finding Yourself, Politics, Firsts

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• Lloyd George es un tuerto con anteojeras.

  Archibald Primrose, V Conde de Rosebery

  Blinkers, Fellows

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• Lord Randolph Churchill was the chief mourner at his own protracted funeral.

  Archibald Primrose, V Conde de Rosebery

  Funeral, Lord, Chiefs

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• We regard our parties as interesting groups of gladiators.

  Archibald Primrose, V Conde de Rosebery

  Party, Interesting, Groups

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