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Austen Chamberlain

"The danger which threatens us comes from Labour...Those who think that the Conservative or Unionist Party, standing as such and disavowing its Liberal allies, could return with a working majority are living in a fools paradise and, if they persist, may easily involve themselves and the country in dangers the outcome of which it is hard to predict."

Source : "The Impact of Labour, 1920-1924: The Beginnings of Modern British Politics" by Maurice Cowling, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (p. 181), 1971.

Austen Chamberlain

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“You spend your time like you spend money. You can waste it or invest it.”
“There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.”
“They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.”
“Writerâ€™s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows.”
“I frequently hear music in the heart of noise.”

Source : Letter to Isaac Goldberg in "The Memory of All That" by Joan Peyser (p. 80), 1993.
“If drugs were legalized in the US, the Mexican economy would collapse since the earnings from drugs bring in more hard currency than its largest licit source, oil sales. Mexico is a corrupt state that has now become dependent on the earnings on an illegal product. But inevitably, the product will become legal and then Mexico will retain its corruption but must face the needs of its citizens now employed by the drug industry who have become steeped in violence and conditioned to higher incomes.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I think once you get it in your head, that you're not going to do anything bigger, you just do things that you enjoy, which has always been my ethos anyway.”
“Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just.”

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