Politics Quotes by Henry Campbell-Bannerman

You have indeed done much since the new century began to give shape and substance to the growing, the insistent desire that war may…

— Henry Campbell-Bannerman

Chess is not a game, but a disease.

— Henry Campbell-Bannerman

In addressing you I feel that I am not so much speaking to the representatives of diverse States of Europe and America as to…

— Henry Campbell-Bannerman

Gentlemen, I fervently trust that before long the principle of arbitration may win such confidence as to justify its extension to a wider field…

— Henry Campbell-Bannerman

Personally, I am a great believer in bed, in constantly keeping horizontal...the heart and everything else go slower, and the whole system is refreshed.

— Henry Campbell-Bannerman

Liberal politics meant the politics of common-sense.

— Henry Campbell-Bannerman

Good government could never be a substitute for government by the people themselves.

— Henry Campbell-Bannerman

But, gentlemen, can any of us say that as a result of such overwhelming sacrifices of money, of men, of ideals, and of civil…

— Henry Campbell-Bannerman

I am half-surprised to find that as I go on I get more and more confirmed in the old advanced Liberal principles, economic, social,…

— Henry Campbell-Bannerman

Scare answers to scare, and force begets force, until at length it comes to be seen that we are racing one against another after…

— Henry Campbell-Bannerman

We are keenly in sympathy with the representatives of Labour. We have too few of them in the House of Commons. The Liberal party,…

— Henry Campbell-Bannerman

We have to admit that, notwithstanding all the efforts in which governments and peoples have participated, no corresponding change has been wrought in the…

— Henry Campbell-Bannerman