James Avon Clyde, Lord Clyde famous quotes

No man in this country is under the smallest obligation, moral or otherwise, so to arrange his legal relations to his business or his property as to enable the Inland Revenue to put the largest shovel into his stores.
-- James Avon Clyde, Lord Clyde

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Into my hear an air that kills through yon far country blows what are those blue remembered hills what spires,what farms are those? that is the land of lost content I can see it shining plain the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

I think in this country we're committed to developing plays, and many plays I've seen have been rewritten too much. The scenes are tight, the play ends at the right time, you know exactly what the scene is about, but it seems flat; you can almost see that too many hands have been on the play. The individual voice is gone.

Josh: So, Toby, it’s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it? Toby: God bless America.

He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back

Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

I believe that rules do not make us moral; loving each other makes us moral.

There is a radical dualism between the empirical nature of man and its moral nature.

We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.

Every nation has a moral obligation to safeguard the future.