Disraeli:
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct

Winston Churchill 1903

I am an English Liberal. I hate the Tory Party, their men, their words and their methods.

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Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.  It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. 

Pitt the Younger 1783 

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‘We have no eternal allies and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow’ –

Lord Palmerston, 1848

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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery 1871 – 1945

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There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
  Indian Proverb

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To innovate is not to reform.

 Burke 1796

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An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
Winston Churchill

LD Pensions spokesman 4th Oct 09 Ministers sit on their ballooning pension pots in their inflation proofed bunkers while millions of families see their private pensions shot to shreds.__________________