Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.

Quote by John Morley

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The proper memory for a politician is one that knows what to remember and what...

The proper memory for a politician is one that knows what to remember and what...

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.

You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.

He who hates vice hates men.

He who hates vice hates men.

Three things matter in a speech - who says it, how he says it and...

Three things matter in a speech - who says it, how he says it and...

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be...

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be...

Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.

Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.

They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement...

They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement...

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great...

They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great...

All religions die of one disease - that of being found out

All religions die of one disease - that of being found out

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to...

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to...

No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.

No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.

Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent,...

Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent,...

A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation.

A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation.

Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law.

Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law.