ARCHIBALD PHILIP PRIMROSE ROSEBERY

This is not a Budget, but a revolution; a social and political revolution of the first magnitude.

Before Irish Home Rule is conceded by the Imperial Parliament, England as the predominant member of the three kingdoms will have to be convinced of its justice and equity.

Under a system of free trade every branch of industry did not prosper.

The British Empire is the greatest secular agency for good now known to mankind.

You have acquired so enormous a mass of territory that it will be years before you can settle it or control it, or make it capable of defense or make it amenable to the acts of your administration

The Empire is built up on free trade... your Empire is founded on the condition, and it could not have existed until now except on that condition, that every self-governing part of it shall have the right to work out its own prosperity by its own methods.

The first advice I have to give the party is that it should clean its slate.

... a free, tolerant and unaggressive Empire

What was good enough for my father is good enough for me" is a treasured English axiom which, if strictly carried out, would have kept us to wooden ploughs and water clocks. In these days we need to be inoculated with some of the nervous energy of the Americans.

The nation which is satisfied is lost. The nation which is not progressive is retrograding.

... a free, tolerant and unaggressive Empire

You have acquired so enormous a mass of territory that it will be years before you can settle it or control it, or make it capable of defense or make it amenable to the acts of your administration

Before Irish Home Rule is conceded by the Imperial Parliament, England as the predominant member of the three kingdoms will have to be convinced of its justice and equity.

The first advice I have to give the party is that it should clean its slate.

The Empire is built up on free trade... your Empire is founded on the condition, and it could not have existed until now except on that condition, that every self-governing part of it shall have the right to work out its own prosperity by its own methods.

Under a system of free trade every branch of industry did not prosper.

What was good enough for my father is good enough for me" is a treasured English axiom which, if strictly carried out, would have kept us to wooden ploughs and water clocks. In these days we need to be inoculated with some of the nervous energy of the Americans.

The nation which is satisfied is lost. The nation which is not progressive is retrograding.

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 back.

The British Empire is the greatest secular agency for good now known to mankind.

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

This is not a Budget, but a revolution; a social and political revolution of the first magnitude.

… the people are now inclined to think that politics is not merely a game at which the pawns have to be sacrificed to the knights and castles, but is an elevating and ennobling effort to carry into practical politics and practical life the principles of a higher morality