Lord Randolph Churchill was the chief mourner at his own protracted funeral. Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery More Quotes by Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery More Quotes From Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery Do not first announce action, and then, when you are unable to take action, withdraw, because you will only find yourself in the same position as now, plus a public and humiliating confession of impotence. Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery finding-yourself politics firsts Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous. Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery thrifty frugality people Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record. Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery records silence photography A man will blithely do in politics what he would kick a man downstairs for in ordinary life. Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery politics ordinary men How marvelous it all is! Built not by saints and angels, but the work of men's hands; cemented with men's honest blood and with a world of tears, welded by the best brains of centuries past; not without the taint and reproach incidental to all human work, but constructed on the whole with pure and splendid purpose. Human, and yet not wholly human -- for the most heedless and the most cynical must see the finger of the Divine. Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery angel men past The Empire is a Commonwealth of nations. Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery commonwealth empires british We regard our parties as interesting groups of gladiators. Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery groups party interesting Lloyd George is a one-eyed fellow in blinkers. Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery blinkers fellows
