Not who you're looking for? Others named Arthur Balfour: British Prime Minister, Conservative politician, and statesm
“It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.”
“Those who look forward to a period of continuous and, so to speak, inevitable progress, are bound to assign some more solid reason for their convictions than a merely empirical survey of the surface lessons of history. ...Humanity, civilisation, progress itself, must have a tendency to mitigate the harsh methods by which Nature has wrought out the variety and the perfection of organic life.”
“Most terrible of all the terrible Turks.”
“The General Strike has taught the working classes more in four days than years of talking could have done.”
“Biography should be written by an acute enemy.”
“Our whole political machinery presupposes a people so fundamentally at one that they can safely afford to bicker.”
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