Ramsay MacDonald Quotes

• We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn't it time that we should take risks to secure peace?

  Ramsay MacDonald

  Peace, War, Taken

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• We hear war called murder. It is not; it is suicide.

  Ramsay MacDonald

  Suicide, War, Politics

  In Observer 4 May 1930

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• Wars are popular. Contractors make profits; the aristocracy glean honour.

  Ramsay MacDonald

  War, Aristocracy, Profit

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• The man who saves time by galloping loses it by missing his way; the shepherd who hurries his flock to get them home spends the night on the mountain looking for the lost; economy does not consist in haste, but in certainty.

  Ramsay MacDonald

  Home, Night, Men

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• We shall never be able to effect physical disarmament until we have succeeded in effecting moral disarmament.

  Ramsay MacDonald

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

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• The trade-unionist has the same limitation imposed upon him as the capitalist. He cannot advance his interests at the expense of society.

  Ramsay MacDonald

  Business, Interest, Trade

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• Society goes on and on and on. It is the same with ideas.

  Ramsay MacDonald

  Ideas, Goes On

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• The people do not mind fornication but they loathe adultery.

  Ramsay MacDonald

  People, Mind, Adultery

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• It is not God but the Devil who is in charge of the international situation and those who are working for God in it are poor servants if all they do is worship God and neglect their duty to cincumvent the Devil.

  Ramsay MacDonald

  Devil, Worship, Poor

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• Tomorrow every Duchess in London will be waiting to kiss me.

  Ramsay MacDonald

  Kissing, Waiting, Aristocracy

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• Golf is to me what his Sabine farm was to the poet Horace - a solace and an inspiration.

  Ramsay MacDonald

  Inspiration, Golf, Poet

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