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To serve Armenia is to serve civilization.

Civilization Quotes

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

One example is worth a thousand arguments.

I was tenaciously opposed by the governor and deputy-governor of the Bank, who had seats in parliament, and I had the City for an antagonist on almost every occasion.

The errors of former times are recorded for our instruction in order that we may avoid their repition.

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.

I venture on assuring you that I regard the design formed by you and your friends with sincere interest, and in particular wish well to all the efforts you may make on behalf of individual freedom and independence as opposed to what is termed Collectivism .

Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion.

A rational reaction against the irrational excesses and vagaries of scepticism may, I admit, readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. To be engaged in opposing wrong affords, under the conditions of our mental constitution, but a slender guarantee for being right .

The book must of necessity be put into a bookcase. And the bookcase must be housed. And the house must be kept. And the library must be dusted, must be arranged, must be catalogued. What a vista of toil, yet not unhappy toil!

I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar then, which when once learned need not be referred to afterwards.

It is no use for the honorable member to shake his head in the teeth of his own words.

Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.

Man is to be trained chiefly by studying and by knowing man.

My only hope for the world is in bringing the human mind into contact with divine revelation.

Is not that state a warning and a judgment for our heavy sins as a nation?

I venture to say that every man who is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or of political danger is morally entitled to come within the pale of the Constitution.

Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women.

Decision by majorities is as much an expedient as lighting by gas.

If Germany is to become a colonizing power, all I say is, God speed her! She becomes our ally and partner in the execution of the great purposes of Providence for the advantage of mankind.

He is the purest figure in history. About George Washington.

National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.

The resources of civilization are not yet exhausted.

You cannot fight against future. Time is on its side.

All the wonders of the Greek civilization heaped together are less wonderful than the single book of Psalms. Greece had all that this world could give her; but the flowers of Paradise blossomed in Palestine alone.

All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.

The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.

The ravages of drink are greater than those of war pestilence and famine combined.

Budgets are not merely affairs of arithmetic, but in a thousand ways go to the root of prosperity of individuals, the relation of classes and the strength of kingdoms.

There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted; and he is still wiser who, from among the things that he can do well, chooses and resolut.

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

I am inclined to say that the personal attendance and intervention of women in election proceedings, even apart from any suspicion of the wider objects of many of the promoters of the present movement, would be a practical evil not only of the gravest, but even of an intolerable character.

Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds, and I probably know little of these years through which I busily work and live, beyond this, how sin and frailty deface them, and how mercy crowns them.

We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.

Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.

To call a man a characteristically Oxford man is, in my opinion, to give him the highest compliment that could be paid to any human being.

Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling; not a mean and groveling thing that we are to shuffle through as we can, but an elevated and lofty destiny.

There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.

To be engaged in opposing wrong affords but a slender guarantee for being right.

No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.

The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.

I think that the principle of the Conservative Party is jealousy of liberty and of the people, only qualified by fear ; but I think the principle of the Liberal Party is trust in the people, only qualified by prudence .

From the time I took office as Chancellor of the Exchequer, I began to learn that the State held, in the face of the Bank and the City, an essentially false position as to finance. The Government itself was not to be a substantive power, but was to leave the Money Power supreme and unquestioned.

Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.

Censure and criticism never hurt anybody. If false, they can’t hurt you unless you are wanting in manly character; and if true, they show a man his weak points, and forewarn him against failure and trouble.

The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.

For works of the mind really great there is no old age, no decrepitude. It is inconceivable that a time should come when Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, should not ring in the ears of civilized man.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won’t have to hunt for happiness.

Be thorough in all you do; and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable.

Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books – even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome.

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