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Arthur Balfour

(1848–1930) Politician United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

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Arthur Balfour was a politician from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, best known for Retrospect, an Unfinished Autobiography, 1848-1886.

Quick Facts About Arthur Balfour

Born: July 25, 1848
Died: March 19, 1930
Nationality: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Profession: Politician
Notable works: Retrospect, an Unfinished Autobiography, 1848-1886

About Arthur Balfour

Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, was a British statesman and Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905. He also later served as foreign secretary in the Lloyd George ministry, from 1916 to 1919.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Order of Merit Order of the Garter Fellow of the Royal Society Fellow of the British Academy Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Cross of Liberty 1st Division, 3rd Class

Quotes by Arthur Balfour

Our Scottish theory ... is that every country has need of Scotchmen, but that Scotland has no need of the citizens of…

Citizens

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He [A. J. Balfour] was eminently one of the Cole Porter school of famous men, who only fell to rise again. Picking…

Art

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In politics nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.

Awareness

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The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.

Class

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The power of authority is never more subtle and effective than when it produces a psychological atmosphere or climate favorable to the…

Atmosphere

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Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens, and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic hypothesis we…

Beetles

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“We survey the past, and see that its history is of blood and tears, of helpless blundering, of wild revolt, of stupid…

Death

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I never forgive, but I always forget.

Always

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“Nothing matters very much and most things don't matter at all.”

Nihilism

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Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Biography

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I do not stare at a gentleman in distress.

Distress

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Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.

Matter

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In effort Happiness idleness life pleasure superstition support trouble work The superstition that all our hours of work are a minus quantity…

Doctrine

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Science preceded the theory of science, and is independent of it. Science preceded naturalism, and will survive it.

Accounts

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Ask with urgency and passion.

Asks

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I'd rather take advice from my valet than from the Conservative Party Conference

Advice

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I never forgive, but I always forget. I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is…

Forgiveness

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Advice would be more acceptable if it didn't always conflict with our plans.

Acceptable

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I look forward to a time when Irish patriotism will as easily combine with British patriotism as Scottish patriotism combines now.

British

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Imperishable moments and immortal deeds, death itself and love stronger than death, will be as though they had never been. The energies…

And love

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I do not know how it comes about, but if you sit opposite a man every day and you are engaged in…

Deserve

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There are plenty of cases of war being begun before it is declared.

Cases

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His Majesty's Government views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their…

Achievement

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Though the parallel is not complete, it is safe to say that science will never touch them unaided by its practical applications.…

Accounts

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The tyranny of majorities may be as bad as the tyranny of kings.

Kings

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