Antony Lambton Quotes
Richard Crossman ... has a gift, which is useful to teaching but fatal to politics, uncontrolled imagination. There is no side of an argument that he cannot see, and he can well argue that black is white. Once his mind starts working it runs away with him, and he is able to persuade himself of the truth of what he wants to hear. At the same time, with the arrogance of the intellectual, he suggests that anyone who disagrees with him is little more than an idiot.
Antony Lambton, (Viscount Lambton), British Member of Parliament (Conservative), Insult of Richard Crossman, classicist and Socialist Member of Parliament, Harold Wilson and his Friends, E. D. O'Brien Publications
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Antony Claud Frederick Lambton,, briefly 6th Earl of Durham, styled before 1970 as Viscount Lambton, and widely known as Lord Lambton, was a Conservative Member of Parliament and a cousin of Sir Alec Douglas-Home, the former Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary. Lambton resigned from Parliament and ministerial office in 1973.
