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E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, KG OM GCSI GCMG GCIE TD PC (16 April 1881 – 23 December 1959), styled Lord Irwin from 1925 until 1934 and Viscount Halifax from 1934 until 1944, was one of the most senior British Conservative politicians of the 1930s. He held several senior ministerial posts during this time, most notably those of Viceroy of India from 1925 to 1931 and of Foreign Secretary between 1938 and 1940. He was one of the architects of the policy of appeasement of Adolf Hitler in 1936-38, working closely with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. However, after the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in March 1939 he was one of those who pushed for a new policy of attempting to deter further German aggression by promising to go to war to defend Poland.

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The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have

Argument, Arguments, Contention, Friends, Win, Winning

If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men in the world.

Freed, Liberty, Men, Understand, World

A fool hath no dialogue within himself, the first thought carrieth him without the reply of a second.

Carrieth, Dialogue, Firsts, Fool, Reply

Business is so much lower a thing than learning that a man used to the last cannot easily bring his stomach down to the first.

Bring, Business, Lasts, Men, Used

I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.

Education, Herr, Manage, Mussolini, Oxford, Thinking

The past is the best way to suppose what may come.

Come, May, Past, Suppose, Way

A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Dwell, House, Long, Take, Thinking, Thought

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Deeper, Humility, Like, Meaningful, Merit, Positive

The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies.

Monopolies, Society, Sorts, Spiritual, World

The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation.

Against, Conspiracy, Party, Political, Politics

In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and divines.

Perfect, Philosopher, Philosophers, Precepts, Reconciling, Weakness

Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.

Ceremony, Civility, Friendship, Live

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Borrow, Debt, Men, Repay, Thinking

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.

Good, Good Company, Guide, Life, Way

There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured.

Cruelty, Men, Natured, Numbers, Particular, Though

A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as mad as they think him.

Art, Man, Mankind, Men, Philosophy, Think

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

Complain, Complaining, Funny, Law, Laws, Lawyers

Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms.

Apt, Freedom, Insolent, Liberty, Saucy, Term

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

Beauty, Dress, Dresses, Lust, Luster, Plainer