Of this stamp is the cant of, not men, but measures.
Protection and patriotism are reciprocal.
Away with the cant of "Measures, not men!"
—the idle supposition that it is the harness and
not the horses that draw the chariot along. No
Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything,
measures comparatively nothing.
Canning—Speech against the Addington Ministry. (1801)
| seealso = (See also Brougham)
| topic = Politics
| page = 611
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>The Duty of an Opposition is to oppose.
Quoted by Randolph Churchill.
| seealso = (See also Stanley)
{{Hoyt quote
| num = 5
| text = One of the greatest of Romans, when asked
what were his politics, replied, "Imperium et
libertas." That would not make a bad programme for a British Ministry.
Randolph Churchill—Speech. Mansion
House, London. Nov. 10, 1879.
Here the two great interests Imperium et
LibertaSj res olim insociabiles (saith Tacitus),
began to incounter each other.
Sir Winston Churchill—Dim BrUannici.
P. 849. (1675)
| topic = Politics
| page = 611
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>Nam ego in ista sum sententia, qua te fuisse
semper scio, nihil ut feurit in suffragiis voce
melius.
I am of the opinion which you have always
held, that "viva voce" voting at elections is
the best method.
Cicero—De Legions. III. 15. Philippics.
IV. 4. Tacitus—Agricola. Ch. III.
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| work =
| place =
| note =
| topic = Politics
| page = 611
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num = 5
| text = It is a condition which confronts us—not a theory.
Grover Cleveland—Annual Message.
(1887)
| seealso = (See also Disraeli)
| topic = Politics
| page = 611
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>Party honesty is party expediency.
Grover Cleveland—Interview in New York
Commercial Advertiser. Sept. 19, 1889.
Laissez faire, laissez passer.
Let it alone. Let it pass by.
Colbert, according to Lord John Russell.
See report of his speech in the London
Times, April 2, 1840. Attributed to
Gournat, Minister of Commerce, at Paris,
1751. Also to Quesnat. Quoted by
Adam Smith—Wealth of Nations.
Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.
Benj. Disraeli—On Import Duties. April 25,
1843.
| seealso = (See also {{sc|Cleveland)
The Right Honorable gentleman [Sir Robert
Peel] caught the Whigs bathing and walked
away with their clothes.
Benj. Disraeli—Speech. House of Commons,
Feb. 28, 1845.
Party is organized opinion.
Benj. Disraeli—Speech. Oxford, Nov. 25,
1864.
Principle is ever my motto, no expediency.
Benj. Disraeli—Sybil. Bk. II. Ch. II.
| seealso = (See also Cleveland)
| topic = Politics
| page = 611
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>Information upon points of practical politics.
Benj. Disraeli—Vivian Gray. Ch. XIV.
Given by Walsh as first appearance of the
phrase "practical politics."
All the ten-to-oners were in the rear, and a
dark horse, which had never been thought of,
and which the careless St. James had never
even observed in the list, rushed past the grand
stand in sweeping triumph.
Benj. Disraeli—The Young Duke. Bk. II.
Ch.V.
| seealso = (See also Thackeray)
| topic = Politics
| page = 611
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>Damned Neuters, in their Middle way of
Steering,
Are neither Fish, nor Flesh, nor good Red Herring.
Dryden—Duke of Guise. Epilogue. Phrase
used by Dr. Smith. Ballet. Ch. LX. In
Musarum Delicice.
What is a Communist? One who has yearnings
For equal division of unequal earnings.
Ebenezer Elliot—Epigrams.
All political power is a trust.
Charles James Fox. (1788)
| topic = Politics
| page = 611
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>Oh! we'll give 'em Jessie
When we rally round the polls.
Popular song of Fremont's Supporters in the
Presidential Campaign of 1856.
I always voted at my party's call,
And I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
W. S. GHiBERT—H. M. S. Pinafore.
Measures, not men, have always been my mark.
| author = Goldsmith
| work = Good-Natured Man. Act II.
| seealso = (See also Burke)
| topic = Politics
| page = 611
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind,
And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
| author = Goldsmith
| work = Retaliation. L. 31.
Who will burden himself with your liturgical
parterre when the burning questions [brennende
Fragen] of the day invite to very different toils?
Hagenbach—Grundlinien der Liturgik und
ffomiletik. (1803) "Burning question" used
by Edward Miall, M.P., also by Disraeli in the House of Commons, March,
1873.
