[H]e had small taste for theorising, and did not set out to be a political thinker in any large or systematic sense.

You closed your speech with some eloquent expressions of your desire to satisfy the national aspirations of Ireland. "That means civil war," I said. We have heard from the opposite Bench several very animated appeals to this House, and several constitutional lectures as to our duties.

If you intrust independent executive and legislative power to the Government of Ireland, can you say it will never be hostile?

My idea of the manner of dealing with Russia is not to extract from her promises which she will not keep (cheers), but to say to her, "There is a point to which you shall not go (cheers), and if you go we will spare neither men nor money until you go back." I grieve that so much of the resources of this country must be spent on what is essentially an unprofitable expenditure but, after all, safety, safety from a foreign foe comes first, before every other earthly blessing, and we must take care, in our responsibility to the many interests that depend upon us, in our responsibility to the generations that are to succeed to us, that no neglect of ours shall suffer that safety to be compromised.

No doubt.

They deliberately decided that civil war, with all its horrors, and with all its peculiar risks to themselves as slaveowners, was a lighter evil than to be surrendered to the justice or the clemency of a victorious Democracy. (Cheers.)

(Loud cheers. Whenever the thought crosses you that you can safely abandon those who for centuries have taken your side in Ireland, I beseech you to think of India, I beseech you to think of the effect it will have if the suspicion can get abroad there that, should convenience once dictate such a policy, like the Loyalists of Ireland, will be flung aside like a sucked orange when their purpose has been fulfilled.

I object on principle to doing by legislation what properly belongs to human good feeling and charity. -1902.

Such a result, constituted as human nature is, would no doubt be irritating. never trust a cecil. Speech in Nottingham (26 November 1889), quoted in Andrew Roberts. The elective principlegovernment by representationis not an Eastern idea; it does not fit Eastern traditions or Eastern minds.

(Cheers.

", Lord Salisbury was a counsellor whose honour was above reproach.

Defending increased naval expenditure; speech in Brighton (19 November 1895), quoted in. [W]e may fairly protest against any artificial action which tends to lower wages, and therefore makes a living wage more difficult to obtain.

There is your unity. But I cannot look upon them as more likely to promote any cause I may have at heart than the other side. Variant: The only true lasting benefit which the statesman can give to the poor man is so to shape matters that the greatest possible liberty for the exercise of his own moral and intellectual qualities should be offered to him by law. Letter to Lady John Manners (14 June 1884), quoted in Paul Smith (ed.

WebThis Cecil. But if you allow the play of parties to bring about imprudent concessions, if you allow the mere impotence of a divided English opinion to permit the establishment of an independence or a quasi independence in Ireland, the days of England's great pre-eminence among the nations of the earth are numbered.

A resolution of that kind manfully carried out will restore that prosperity to which Ireland has for so long been a stranger.

The suffrage is gone: they are lukewarm about the Church, and would no doubt give it up, as they have given up other things, for the sake of office. Solution. [I]f our ancestors had cared for the rights of other people, the British empire would not have been made. Letter to Disraeli (September 1876), quoted in G. Cecil. Letter to Lord Selborne after J.P. Morgan acquired a predominating influence in Cunard, White Star and other shipping lines (13 March 1902), quoted in Andrew Roberts.

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Speech in the Mansion House, London (10 November 1890), quoted in, Statement to the Associated Chambers of Commerce (March 1891). England is the Protestant nation of the world. What advantage does my noble Friend think could be derived by humanity, civilization or commerce from leaving the vast tracts of territory which he has described to be simply wandered over by naked savages or to be the hunting ground of slavers? It is the road to India. Your Majesty's advisers recommend it on the whole as necessary in order to avoid serious danger.

When a 12-year-old boy and his dog are stranded far from home, they must find a way back through the chaos and mayhem of the most dangerous night of the year.

(Cheers.) Conflict in free states is the law of life. It isn't enough; it will not see you through.

a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity.

I have for so many years entertained a firm conviction that we were going to the dogs that I have got to be quite accustomed to the expectation.

Letter to Arthur Balfour after the Conservatives' defeat in the, I hope that we shall not go too far in accepting the, Letter to Arthur Balfour (15 January 1881), quoted in.

That Mahomedan civilisation hangs back from the general movement of the world, and certainly from the movement of Christian nations.

In the first character he is anxious to kill him, in the second he is anxious to rifle him. Salisbury said two things which are more decided than any former utterances of his: that Russia at Constantinople would do us no harm: and that we ought to seize Egypt. (Cheers.)

(Loud and prolonged cheers.

If we occupy a distant, large, and uncivilised country and attempt to make it subservient to the purposes of commerce, we injure no others, because all others are as free to use it for commercial purposes as ourselves.

On reflection, I am convinced that turbulence as well as every other evil temper of this evil age belongs not to the lower but to the middle classes.

We give our confidence to the people of England because they have always been loyal to the Queen, have always loved the law, and have always been passionately attached to the Empire. But do not imagine that by merely affixing to it the reproach of Socialism you can seriously affect the progress of any great legislative movement, or destroy those high arguments which are derived from the noblest principles of philanthropy and religion.

), Speech in Mansion House, London (9 November 1885), quoted in, [S]omehow or other another prospect of unlimited vestry confiscation, something like the, Speech in St. Stephen's Club, London (23 November 1885), quoted in, I never admired the political transformation scenes of. On the contraryyou know that a very considerable proportion of the population of Ireland is unfortunately at this time, and has been for generations past, animated with the most bitter sentiments against England. In the present temper of the Irish peoplethe extension of the suffrage now would be merely to strengthen the element which opposes the connexion with England, and strikes for independence.

You, the constituencies of England, must settle how this question is to be dealt with.

A generation which knew. (Hear, hear.) Letter to Sir Philip Wodehouse (4 June 1875), quoted in Michael Bentley.

Lord Salisbury had won the reputation of a great statesman in an age of great statesmen.

They have changed masters so often that there is nothing humiliating to them in having gained a new one. During an August 17 broadcast, Berry mocked 19-year-old shooting victim, saying he lingered 20.. Michaels average salary is 71,128 annually. Constitutional institutions are splendid things, but whoever heard of any nation which was purely Mahomedan being able to enjoy them.

His mind seemed full of "a put-your-foot-down policy." ), Speech in Newcastle-upon-Tyne (12 October 1881), quoted in, Much has been said in the present debate about conciliation and the value of conciliatory measures to IrelandConciliatory legislation is infinitely superior; but it depends for its efficacy on the circumstances under which it is used, and on the manner in which it is applied.

The struggle for power in our day lies not between Crown and people, or between a caste of nobles and a bourgeoisie, but between the classes who have property and the classes who have none. The hurricane that has swept us away is so strange & new a phenomenon that we shall not for some time understand its real meaning.

One thing at least is clearthat no one believes in our good intentions.

The vast multitudes of India I thoroughly believe are well contented with our rule. Speech in Leeds against Irish Home Rule (18 June 1886), quoted in.

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We have a right to say that our social system is for ourselves and that we will not receive a destitute population which will lower the standard of our own population and increase the burdens we have to bear. Prove that it is against public policy; show that it discourages thrift; above all, show that it interferes with justice, that it benefits one class by injuring anotherdo these things, and you have proved your case.

What is called public opinion in India is frequently the opinion of a clique, and presents none of the guarantees for sound judgment possessed by a public opinion which represents the combined views of a large mass of different interests and classes.

They are well aware that thorny questions of controversy are not fit for men of unripe and unpractised minds, and that the only effect of asking them to choose impartially between all beliefs is to make them think that no belief is of much importance, and that at an age when temptations are strongest they may come to the conclusion that the moral maxims which rest on belief and belief alone are mere ancient and valueless superstitions. 6.

I say that we put all our money upon the wrong horse.

Diplomacy which does not rest on force is the most feeble and futile of weapons, and except for bare self-defence, we have not the force.

Onrare and great occasions, on which the national mind has fully declared itself, I do not doubt your Lordships would yield to the opinion of the countryotherwise the machinery of Government could not be carried on. (Cheers and laughter.

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Big fan of the bone in fried chicken but finally decide to try the chicken sandwich. The person who acquires political power by the accident of birth, who has nothing to gain from its exercise in the way of money, status or recognition, and who regards the business of government as the wise disposition of inherited goods, is a great force for stability. There is a reproach in that interruption, but I have never said anything else.

Letter to H. W. Acland (4 February 1867), quoted in Lady Gwedolen Cecil. It was not of our atmosphereit was not in accordance with our habits; it did not belong to us. It is idle to discuss whether it ought to exist; for, as a matter of fact, it never does.

Every community has natural leaders, to whom, if they are not misled by the insane passion for. [Most legislation] will have the effect of surrounding the industry which it touches with precautions and investigations, inspections and regulations, in which it will be slowly enveloped and stifled.

[T]he opinions which some politicians loudly expressthat the maintenance of the honour of this country and jealousy for her military fame are bygone emotions which cannot live in the face of the practical spirit of the present day. What has been done in the past can be done in the future.

You have done it to the Greeks, but I do not know whether the result has been absolutely what you wish. There are rewards which can only be obtained by men who excite the public mind, and devise means of persuading one set of persons that they are deeply injured by another. In short he is a man of a past age, has no sympathy with the life, the stir and growth of the present, and no belief in the future. ), Defending increased naval expenditure; speech in the Guildhall, London (9 November 1888), quoted in.

Your hope is in thisthat Parliament shall school itself to adopt a steady, consistent policy, and maintain it when it is once adopted.

(Cheers.) They had acted in partnership with one for seventy years.

Speech in the House of Lords (25 November 1891), quoted in Michael Bentley, Speech to Devonshire Conservatives (January 1892), as quoted in.

Few men, whatever their creed, would now seek their geology in the books of their religion, or, on the other hand, would fancy that the laboratory or the microscope could help them to penetrate the mysteries which hang over the nature and the destiny of the soul of man.

African Americans and Jamaicans. (Hear, hear.) But. Speech in the House of Lords (6 March 1890), quoted in. Since the Crown is a fictional account of the reigning Monarch Queen Elizabeth, and since the exact phrase "Never trust a Cecil" from the accounts Post author: Post published: April 6, 2023 Post category: loverboy band member dies Post comments: man finds giant rocket in forest man finds giant rocket in forest

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[T]he splitting up of mankind into a multitude of infinitesimal governments, in accordance with their actual differences of dialect or their presumed differences of race, would be to undo the work of civilisation and renounce all the benefits which the slow and painful process of consolidation has procured for mankindIt is the agglomeration and not the comminution of states to which civilisation is constantly tending; it is the fusion and not the isolation of races by which the physical and moral excellence of the species is advanced.

Letter to Miss Milner (11 November 1901), quoted in, It is very sad, but I'm afraid America is bound to forge ahead and nothing can restore the equality between us. ), Speech in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester (16 April 1884), quoted in. The last fifteen years have been one long disenchantment; and the American civil war is the culmination of the process.

And I don't give a crap about any special relationship.

If they would have our officials in distant parts of the Empire, and especially in India, regard the lives of their coloured fellow-subjects with the same sympathy and with the same zealous and quick affection with which they would regard the lives of their fellow-subjects at home, it was the Members of that House who must give the tone and set the example. Are your Lordships prepared to see the allegiance of the people of Asia given up to the advancing Power? Now, if you wish to learn whether it is true that industry can be pursued and trade can prosper while glory is tarnished and empire is destroyed, lookon this case of Egypt.

The really remarkable fact which is to be inferred from the conduct of the Southern States is, the genuine alarm with which they regarded the workings of Democracy. Speech to a banquet of the Merchant Taylors' Company, London (10 May 1886), quoted in. These are the things which are done, so to speak, on the side of war. As long as I sit for a Conservative borough, I must continue to rank in the party and I will do what I can to promote good legislation.

(Cheers.)

[A]s long as England is true to herself now or on any future occasion, if you allow this atrocious, this mean, this treacherous revolution to pass, you will be untrue to the duty which has descended to you from a splendid ancestry, you will be untrue to your highest traditions, you will be untrue to the trust that has been bequeathed to you from the past, you will be untrue to the Empire of England. Of course, we shall be told that a conscience of exalted sensibility, which is the special attribute of the.

A. Shaw-Stewart (17 April 1867), quoted in Lady Gwendolen Cecil.

Cecil was never a hot-take purveyor.

(Hear, hear.) You know very well that they will not govern themselves, but that the majority will govern the minority in a way utterly inconsistent with its rights, and in a manner utterly fatal to all its industrial and commercial hopes. We are often told to secure ourselves by their affections, not by force.

It is our political machinery which fails. I would think that the distrust of the Cecils was dep rooted, as anyone who was not old money for lack of a better term was deeply distrusted/su

Mac& Cheese side very cheddary. To loot somebody or something is the common object under a thick varnish of pious phrases. Yet his fundamental feelings and beliefs, if they were never consciously organised into a political philosophy, were necessarily prime determinants of his political action. I should have thought it was now one of the commonplaces of politics that where such a class exists it is a sheet-anchor of the social stability of the country.

He is haughty and proud, of an intractable temper. The two parties represent two opposite moods of the English mind, which may be trusted, unless past experience is wholly useless, to succeed each other from time to time. All the virtues that are attributed to itin many respects justlyfor the concerns of peace, make it helpless for the purposes of war. I wish that there was any chance of awakening England to the necessity or the duty of sustaining upon the Continent the position which she acquired and held in former times. It is said,and men seem to think that condemnation can go no further than such a censurethat they brought us within twenty-four hours of revolution. He ventured to enter his most earnest protest against the mode in which several Members of that House were inclined to treat anything that ran out of the common ruckand introduced them to schemes and ideas which former debates had not reached.

Salisbury's conservatism did not involve him in romantic, irrational thought, for he is a paradigm example of that curiously neglected strand of English Conservative thoughtEmpirical Conservatism. WebLong black dress and a Coup De Ville. was quoted with regard to Lord Cranborne, a contemporary member of the Cecil family who, in 1998, was dismissed from his Conservative Party office in the House of Lords for conducting unauthorised negotiations with the Labour government. The truth is that the connection of Ireland with England has been full of trouble, and I fear there is no remedy. The concert, or, as I prefer to call it, the inchoate federation of Europe, is a body which acts only when it is unanimousremember thisthat this federation of Europe is the embryo of the only possible structure of Europe which can save civilization from the desolating effects of a disastrous war. As I have said, I consider it to be our true rule and measure of action, and our observance of it is the one justification for our presence in India.

Curabitur venenatis, nisl in bib endum commodo, sapien justo cursus urna.

Remarks to the Cabinet, as recorded in Lord Derby's diary (8 March 1878), quoted in John Vincent (ed.).

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