The Political Principles of Some Notable Prime Ministers of the Nineteenth Century: A Series of Lectures Delivered in King's College, University of LondonFossey John Cobb Hearnshaw Macmillan, 1926 - 300 pages |
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Page 287 - No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you never should trust in experts. If you believe the doctors nothing is wholesome : if you believe the theologians nothing is innocent: if you believe the soldiers nothing is safe.
Page 141 - There is not a better man in England than Lord John Russell ; but his worst failure is that he is utterly ignorant of all moral fear ; there is nothing he would not, undertake. I believe he would perform the operation for the stone — build St. Peter's — or assume (with or without ten minutes...
Page 116 - I say that it is a narrow policy to suppose that this country or that is to be marked out as the eternal ally or the perpetual enemy of England. 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.
Page 279 - It is the duty of every Englishman, and of every English party, to accept a political defeat cordially, and to lend their best endeavours to secure the success, or to neutralise the evil, of the principles to which they have been forced to succumb.
Page 279 - Our theory of government is that on each side of the House there should be men supporting definite opinions, and that what they have supported in opposition they should adhere to in office ; and that every one should know, from the fact of their being in office, that those particular opinions will be supported.
Page 86 - How can those, who spend their time in hunting and shooting and eating and drinking, know what were the motives of those who are responsible for the public security, who have access to the best information, and have no other object under Heaven but to provide against danger, and consult the general interests of all classes...
Page 292 - England had once a traditional policy which was not very difficult to fathom or to apply. She did not meddle with other nations' doings when they concerned her not. But she recognised the necessity of an equilibrium and the value of a public law among the states of Europe. When a great power abused its superiority by encroaching on the frontier of its weaker neighbours, she looked on their cause as her cause, and on their danger as the forerunner of her own. But a change has come over the spirit...
Page 251 - ... that she should seek to develop and mature the action of a common, or public, or European opinion, as the best standing bulwark against wrong, but should beware of seeming to lay down the law of that opinion by her own authority, and thus running the risk of setting against her, and against right and justice, that general sentiment which ought to be, and generally would be, arrayed in their favour.
Page 136 - Malmesbury put forward, as the reason for entering into such a compact, "the attacks which have lately been made on the island of Cuba by lawless bands of adventurers from the United States, with the avowed design of taking possession of that island.
Page 243 - Make the name of England yet more and more an object of desire to the Colonies. Their natural disposition is to love and revere the name of England, and this reverence is by far the best security you can have for their continuing, not only to be subjects of the Crown, not only to render it allegiance, but to render it that allegiance which is the most precious of all — the allegiance which proceeds from the depths of the heart of man.