John Morley
John Morley
John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn OM PCwas a British Liberal statesman, writer and newspaper editor. Initially a journalist, he was elected a Member of Parliament in 1883. He was Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1886 and between 1892 and 1895, Secretary of State for India between 1905 and 1910 and again in 1911 and Lord President of the Council between 1910 and 1914. Morley was a distinguished political commentator, and biographer of his hero, William Gladstone. Morley is...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionStatesman
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way
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Labels are devices for saving talkative persons the trouble of thinking
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Three things matter in a speech - who says it, how he says it and what he says, and of the three, the latter matters the least
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The proper memory for a politician is one that knows what to remember and what to forget
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In my creed, waste of public money is like the sin against the Holy Ghost
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It was just a bang and then I heard sirens.
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You can overdo it, both with men and women, but there clearly is a symptom.