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Quote by William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

“England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.”

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William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, was a prominent English statesman during the reign of Elizabeth I. He served as the Chancellor of the Exchequer and had a significant impact on British politics and economics. more

“What arouses the indignation of the honest satirist is not, unless the man is a prig, the fact that people in positions of power or influence behave idiotically, or even that they behave wickedly. It is that they conspire successfully to impose upon the public a picture of themselves as so very sagacious, honest and well-intentioned.”

People Men Wells Facts Influence Honest Position He Man Behave Cynicism Indignation Satirist Position Of Power

Book:View from the West: Being the Third Volume of Autobiography

Source: View from the West: Being the Third Volume of Autobiography

“Evidently there are plenty of people in journalism who have neither got what they liked nor quite grown to like what they get. They write pieces they do not much enjoy writing, for papers they totally despise, and the sad process ends by ruining their style and disintegrating their personality, two developments which in a writer cannot be separate, since his personality and style must progress or deteriorate together, like a married couple in a country where death is the only permissible divorce.”

Source: I, Claud ...: the autobiography of Claud Cockburn

“It's much easier to do and die than it is to reason why.”

Thinking Reason Dies Easier Reason Why

Author:Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy

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