Ramsay MacDonald famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn't it time that we should take risks to secure peace?
-- Ramsay MacDonald

#War #Taken #Risk
We shall never be able to effect physical disarmament until we have succeeded in effecting moral disarmament.
-- Ramsay MacDonald

#Peace #Able #Moral
The man who saves time by galloping loses it by missing his way; the shepherd who hurries his flock to get them home spends the night on the mountain looking for the lost; economy does not consist in haste, but in certainty.
-- Ramsay MacDonald

#Home #Night #Men
The trade-unionist has the same limitation imposed upon him as the capitalist. He cannot advance his interests at the expense of society.
-- Ramsay MacDonald

#Business #Interest #Expenses
We hear war called murder. It is not; it is suicide.
-- Ramsay MacDonald

#Suicide #War #Politics
Golf is to me what his Sabine farm was to the poet Horace - a solace and an inspiration.
-- Ramsay MacDonald

#Inspiration #Golf #Poet
Society goes on and on and on. It is the same with ideas.
-- Ramsay MacDonald

#Ideas #Goes On
Wars are popular. Contractors make profits; the aristocracy glean honour.
-- Ramsay MacDonald

#War #Aristocracy #Profit
The people do not mind fornication but they loathe adultery.
-- Ramsay MacDonald

#People #Mind #Adultery
It is not God but the Devil who is in charge of the international situation and those who are working for God in it are poor servants if all they do is worship God and neglect their duty to cincumvent the Devil.
-- Ramsay MacDonald

#Devil #Worship #Poor
Tomorrow every Duchess in London will be waiting to kiss me.
-- Ramsay MacDonald

#Kissing #Waiting #Aristocracy

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