Archibald Primrose

"There are two supreme pleasures in life. One is ideal, the other real. The ideal is when a man receives the seals of office from the hands of his Sovereign. The real pleasure comes when he hands them …"

"The last piece of advice I shall venture to offer the Liberal party is this, that they shall not dissociate themselves, even indirectly or unconsciously, or by any careless words, from the new sentime…"

"...what would be most extraordinary is this, that anybody who considered the state of the Liberal party then and now should expect me voluntarily to return to the Liberal party. I left the Liberal par…"

"I used to dislike the Whigs but in my years of loneliness I have come to the conclusion that they governed England better than anybody else. They thought our their measures carefully and adapted them …"

"Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colorless photography of a printed record."

"It is always possible that that may happen here which has happened in Belgium—the elimination of Liberalism, leaving the two forces of Socialism and Reaction face to face. Whether that shall happen he…"

"...what is the advice I have to offer you? the first head is this, that you have to clean your slate. It is six years now since you were in office. It is 16 years since you were in anything like power…"

"the greatest secular agency for good now known to mankind."