George Curzon Quotes
Not even a public figure. A man of no experience and of the utmost insignificance.
Referring to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, 1867-1947: 1st Baron & 1st Marquis Curzon of Kedleston
George Nathaniel Curzon 1859-1925, British Foreign Secretary, Viceroy of India and Lord Privy Seal, Leader of the House of Lords, Quoted in Harold Nicolson, Curzon: The Last Phase
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In 1906 President Theodore Roosevelt took the lead in a legislative attempt to produce railroad rate reform. He took on leaders of his own party who attempted to defeat and then "water down" the bill. In the middle of the fight he changed his position, abandoned his allies and accepted weakening amendments in what became known as "Roosevelt's Surrender." One of the senators who had supported the President on the stronger legislation complained:
It it alleged that in the original quotation "warm piss" was the phrase used, but the delicacies of the times caused the biographer to clean it up.
George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, KG, GCSI, GCIE, PC, FRS, FRGS, FBA (11 January 1859 – 20 March 1925), styled The Honourable between 1858 and 1898, then known as The Lord Curzon of Kedleston between 1898 and 1911, and The Earl Curzon of Kedleston between 1911 and 1921, was a prominent British statesman, Conservative politician and writer who served as Viceroy of India from 1899 to 1905.
