Arthur Balfour Quotes

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• Why can't the Jews and the Arabs just sit down together and settle this like good Christians?

  Arthur Balfour

  Christian, Together, Settling

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• In politics nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.

  Arthur Balfour

  Peace, Work, Matter

  "Nick Clegg's poor choices made him irrelevant, and we are all paying" by Andrew Adonis, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2013.

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• Enthusiasm moves the world.

  Arthur Balfour

  Inspirational, Moving, Optimistic

  Letter to Mrs Drew, 19 May 1891, in Some Hawarden Letters (1917) ch. 7

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• The tyranny of majorities may be as bad as the tyranny of Kings.

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  Kings, Majority, May

  "News Of The Week". The Spectator Magazine, No. 3,380 (p. 1), archive.spectator.co.uk. April 8, 1893.

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• Imperishable moments and immortal deeds, death itself and love stronger than death, will be as though they had never been. The energies of our system will decay, the glory of the sun will be dimmed and the earth tideless and inert, will no longer tolerate the race which has for the moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit and all his thoughts will perish. The uneasy consciousness, which in this obscure corner has for a brief space broken the contented silence of the universe, will be at rest.

  Arthur Balfour

  Men, Race, Space

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• His Majesty's Government views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.

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  Country, Religious, Home

  Letter to Lionel Walter, Lord Rothschild, 2 Nov. 1917. Known as the "Balfour Declaration."

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• It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

  Arthur Balfour

  Truth, Moving, World

  Letter to Mrs Drew, 19 May 1891, in Some Hawarden Letters (1917) ch. 7

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• The power of authority is never more subtle and effective than when it produces a psychological atmosphere or climate favorable to the life of certain modes of belief, unfavorable, and even fatal, to the life of others.

  Arthur Balfour

  Atmosphere, Climate, Belief

  Arthur James Balfour (1895). “The Foundations of Belief: Being Notes Introductory to the Study of Theology”

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• Advice would be more acceptable if it didn't always conflict with our plans.

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  Advice, Would Be, Conflict

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• It has always been desirable to tell the truth, but seldom if ever necessary.

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  Truth, Telling The Truth, Ifs

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• I'd rather take advice from my valet than from the Conservative Party Conference

  Arthur Balfour

  Party, Advice, Conservative

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• I never forgive, but I always forget.

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  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Never Forget

  In R. Blake Conservative Party (1970) ch. 7

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• I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.

  Arthur Balfour

  Men, Promise, Young

  In Winston Churchill My Early Life (1930) ch. 17

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• There are plenty of cases of war being begun before it is declared.

  Arthur Balfour

  War, Cases, Plenty

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• Our Scottish theory ... is that every country has need of Scotchmen, but that Scotland has no need of the citizens of any other country.

  Arthur Balfour

  Country, Scotland, Needs

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• Winston has written four volumes about himself and called it 'World Crisis'.

  Arthur Balfour

  World, Four, Volume

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• And realize that life is the best thing ever, and that you have no business taking it for granted. Care so deeply about its goodness that you want to spread it around. Take money...and give it to charity. Work in a soup kitchen. Be a Big Brother or Sister...You want to do well, but if you do not do good too, then doing well will never be enough.

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  Brother, Soup Kitchens, Giving

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• I do not know how it comes about, but if you sit opposite a man every day and you are engaged in fighting him, you cannot help getting a liking for him whether he deserves it or not.

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  Fighting, Men, Opposites

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• Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.

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  Society, Alive, Intimacy

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• Every human soul is of infinite value, eternal, free; no human being, therefore, is so placed as not to have within his reach, in himself and others, objects adequate to infinite endeavor.

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  Soul, Adequate, Being There

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• I have done nothing important or distinguished since we met except to win the handicap prize, worth ?4 10/- at North Berwick.

  Arthur Balfour

  Winning, Important, Done

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• Ask with urgency and passion.

  Arthur Balfour

  Passion, Questioning, Asks

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• I am more or less happy when being praised, not very comfortable when being abused, but I have moments of uneasiness when being explained.

  Arthur Balfour

  Political, Politics, Moments

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• The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.

  Arthur Balfour

  Talking, Years, Class

  1926 Speech in the House of Commons, 7 May.

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• He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

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  Funny, Art, Book

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