Campbell Bannerman Quotes

#1. You have to listen a lot, and you have to be open and ready to adjust to anything. It kind of provides a framework that you use all the time. You never really shut off that part of your brain when you're doing something. It's invaluable to have.

Will Ferrell

#2. Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#3. Growing up in New Jersey, bat mitzvas were all about the elegant parties.

Judy Gold

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

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

#5. If a movie musical came along and the part was right and somebody wanted me to do it, I would do it in a heartbeat.

Mandy Patinkin

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

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

#7. 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, & political, with which I entered Parliament 30 years ago.

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

#8. In addressing you I feel that I am not so much speaking to the representatives of diverse States of Europe and America as to the exponents of principles and hopes that are common to us all, and without which our life on earth would be a life without horizon or prospect.

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

#9. Look at the cross and you will know what one soul means to Jesus.

Mother Teresa

#10. We have to admit that, notwithstanding all the efforts in which governments and peoples have participated, no corresponding change has been wrought in the aspect of the world's armaments.

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

#11. The leisure time of children must be constructively directed to wholesome, positive pursuits. Too much time viewing television can be destructive ... It is estimated that growing children today watch television over twenty-five hours per week.

Ezra Taft Benson

#12. What but a pestilential vapour can hover over society when its chief director is only instructed in the invention of crimes, or the stupid routine of childish ceremonies?

Mary Wollstonecraft

#13. Scare answers to scare, and force begets force, until at length it comes to be seen that we are racing one against another after a phantom security which continually vanishes as we approach.

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

#14. But some gifts are worse than curses, and the dark side of the gift is that they know. The lost, the stragglers, those who should not have been taken but were, the innocents, the struggling, tormented shades, the gathering ranks of the dead, they know. And they come.

John Connolly

#15. Whoever thought a tiny candy bar should be called fun size was a moron.

Glenn Beck

#16. But, gentlemen, can any of us say that as a result of such overwhelming sacrifices of money, of men, of ideals, and of civil dignity the sense of security has indeed been attained?

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

#17. You have indeed done much since the new century began to give shape and substance to the growing, the insistent desire that war may be banished from the earth.

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

#18. We are keenly in sympathy with the representatives of Labour. We have too few of them in the House of Commons ... The Liberal party, high and low, have discovered, if they ever forgot it, that the real road to success ... lies in adhering to the old principles of the party.

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

#19. Chess is not a game, but a disease.

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

#20. 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

#21. Liberal politics meant the politics of common-sense.

Henry Campbell-Bannerman