Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

The Prime Minister [Ramsay MacDonald]...circulated pamphlets by the thousand in German against our contention. It is terrible to think that such a man should be in high office with the support of anybody in this country.

I used to dislike the Whigs but in my years of loneliness I have come to the conclusion that they governed England better than anybody else. They thought our their measures carefully and adapted them to their times and generation. They …

This is not a Budget, but a revolution; a social and political revolution of the first magnitude.

I must plough my furrow alone.

It is beginning to be hinted that we are a nation of amateurs.

It is always possible that that may happen here which has happened in Belgium—the elimination of Liberalism, leaving the two forces of Socialism and Reaction face to face. Whether that shall happen here depends on the Liberal Party.

There are two supreme pleasures in life. One is ideal, the other real. The ideal is when a man receives the seals of office from the hands of his Sovereign. The real pleasure comes when he hands them back.

[The British Empire is] the greatest secular agency for good now known to mankind.

Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colorless photography of a printed record.

I believe that Liberalism is the principle in politics that neither class, nor creed, nor privilege shall hinder the progress of our natural development.