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If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have read more
If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain.
In war, resolution; in defeat, defiance; in victory, magnanimity
In war, resolution; in defeat, defiance; in victory, magnanimity
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies.
 It is necessary that I should qualify the doctrine of its being 
not men, but measures, that I am read more 
 It is necessary that I should qualify the doctrine of its being 
not men, but measures, that I am determined to support. In a 
monarchy it is the duty of parliament to look at the men as well 
as at the measures. 
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.
It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.
 I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce" 
voting at elections is the best read more 
 I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce" 
voting at elections is the best method.
 [Lat., Nam ego in ista sum sententia, qua te fuisse semper scio, 
nihil ut feurit in suffragiis voce melius.] 
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.