LORD SALISBURY

The English people would never consent to go to war for a cause in which England was not manifestly interested.

The commonest error of politics is sticking to the carcass of dead policies.

I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman - whose utility would disappear if there were no criminals.

You should never trust the experts. If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe.

What is done cannot be effaced. We have to act upon a moral field prepared for us ...

France is, and must always remain, England’s greatest danger.

One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.

It is the duty of the Government to spare no opportunity of opening fresh outlets for the energy of British commerce and enterprise.

A journal produced by office-boys for office-boys.

Many who think they are workers in politics are really merely tools.

I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman - whose utility would disappear if there were no criminals.

One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.

Many who think they are workers in politics are really merely tools.

A journal produced by office-boys for office-boys.

Whenever I form a ministry, the Carleton Club was like the Zoological Gardens at feeding time.

The fate of the Niger, of black and brown people … is being determined in a Hertfordshire beech avenue … where there hasn’t been the ghost of a palm for … 2 million years. I suppose it is all due in some way to the Glacial periods which make us what we are, able to lay down the law to the colored peoples who kept snug in the tropics while we were battling against the cold.

The length of time during which you must play your fish depends on his choice, not on yours.

France is, and must always remain, England’s greatest danger.

The appetite comes as you eat.

[Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain] is only a theoretic imperialist.

The English people would never consent to go to war for a cause in which England was not manifestly interested.

What is done cannot be effaced. We have to act upon a moral field prepared for us ...

If we allowed those who are leading Irish politics unlimited power… we should have to begin by conquering Ireland, if ever we had to fight any other power.

The country is carried comfortably down the river, and the function of Government is to occasionally put out an oar to prevent running into the bank.

You should never trust the experts. If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe.

It is the duty of the Government to spare no opportunity of opening fresh outlets for the energy of British commerce and enterprise.

It is one of the misfortunes of our political system that parties are formed more with reference to controversies that have gone by, than to the controversies which these parties have actually to decide.

The commonest error of politics is sticking to the carcass of dead policies.

Democracy works admirably when it is confined to people who are of the Teutonic race …. You would not confide free representative institutions to the Hottentots for example.