Arthur Balfour
Arthur Balfour
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, KG, OM, PC, DLwas a British Conservative politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from July 1902 to December 1905, and later Foreign Secretary...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth25 July 1848
country safety faithful
No country can allow its safety to be wholly dependent on faithful observance by other states of rules to which they are obliged.
clarity liability
Herbert Asquith's clarity is a great liability because he has nothing to say.
home government looks
His Majesty's Government looks with favour upon the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jews.
looks scottish british
I look forward to a time when Irish patriotism will as easily combine with British patriotism as Scottish patriotism combines now.
funny art book
He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.
men promise young
I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.
atmosphere climate belief
The power of authority is never more subtle and effective than when it produces a psychological atmosphere or climate favorable to the life of certain modes of belief, unfavorable, and even fatal, to the life of others.
soul adequate being-there
Every human soul is of infinite value, eternal, free; no human being, therefore, is so placed as not to have within his reach, in himself and others, objects adequate to infinite endeavor.
talking years class
The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.
fighting men opposites
I do not know how it comes about, but if you sit opposite a man every day and you are engaged in fighting him, you cannot help getting a liking for him whether he deserves it or not.
passion questioning asks
Ask with urgency and passion.
society alive intimacy
Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.
advice would-be conflict
Advice would be more acceptable if it didn't always conflict with our plans.
country scotland needs
Our Scottish theory ... is that every country has need of Scotchmen, but that Scotland has no need of the citizens of any other country.