Henry Campbell-Bannerman famous quotes

03-22-2025

Good government could never be a substitute for government by the people themselves.
-- Henry Campbell-Bannerman

#Freedom #Government #People
Scare answers to scare, and force begets force, until at length it comes to be seen that we are racing one against another after a phantom security which continually vanishes as we approach.
-- Henry Campbell-Bannerman

#Halloween #Racing #Scare
Gentlemen, I fervently trust that before long the principle of arbitration may win such confidence as to justify its extension to a wider field of international differences.
-- Henry Campbell-Bannerman

#Winning #Differences #Long
We have to admit that, notwithstanding all the efforts in which governments and peoples have participated, no corresponding change has been wrought in the aspect of the world's armaments.
-- Henry Campbell-Bannerman

#Government #Effort #World
In addressing you I feel that I am not so much speaking to the representatives of diverse States of Europe and America as to the exponents of principles and hopes that are common to us all, and without which our life on earth would be a life without horizon or prospect.
-- Henry Campbell-Bannerman

#Europe #America #Perspective
Liberal politics meant the politics of common-sense.
-- Henry Campbell-Bannerman

#Common Sense #Common
I am half-surprised to find that as I go on I get more and more confirmed in the old advanced Liberal principles, economic, social, & political, with which I entered Parliament 30 years ago.
-- Henry Campbell-Bannerman

#Years #Political #Principles
We are keenly in sympathy with the representatives of Labour. We have too few of them in the House of Commons. ...The Liberal party, high and low, have discovered, if they ever forgot it, that the real road to success...lies in adhering to the old principles of the party.
-- Henry Campbell-Bannerman

#Real #Lying #Party
Personally, I am a great believer in bed, in constantly keeping horizontal...the heart and everything else go slower, and the whole system is refreshed.
-- Henry Campbell-Bannerman

#Heart #Bed #Appearance
Chess is not a game, but a disease.
-- Henry Campbell-Bannerman

#Games #Disease #Chess

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