William Rees-Mogg Quotes

• Governments lie; bankers lie; even auditors sometimes lie: gold tells the truth.

  William Rees-Mogg

  Lying, Government Lies, Gold

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• War on the cheap is always a rotten policy.

  William Rees-Mogg

  War, Rotten, Policy

  Daily Mail, October 4, 2009.

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• Anyone who has walked through the deserted palaces of Versailles or Vienna realise how much of a part of the life of a nation is lost when a monarchy is abolished. If buckingham palace and windsor castle were transformed into museums, if one politician competed against another for president of the republic, Britain would be a sadder and less interesting place. Our politicians are not men such as could challenge more than a thousand years of history.

  William Rees-Mogg

  Men, Museums, Years

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• John Prescott has made the government look greedy and ridiculous. Labour is seen as the corrupt party. The government has been fulfilling the old rule that oppositions do not win elections, governments lose them.

  William Rees-Mogg

  Party, Winning, Government

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• Lord Rees-Mogg argues that the time for reconciliation in Tibet is passing with the looming departure of its spiritual leader.

  William Rees-Mogg

  Spiritual, Leader, Departure

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• The United States may have retained more of the intellectual imprint of the British 18th century than Britain itself.

  William Rees-Mogg

  History, Intellectual, United States

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• The Treasury model of the economy has been pretty well wrong on everything for many years

  William Rees-Mogg

  Years, Economy, Treasury

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