WIST Quotations

Salisbury, Robert Cecil (Lord) -- Letter to Lord Lytton (15 Jun 1877)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you should never trust experts. If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome: if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent: if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe. They all require their strong wine diluted by a very large admixture of insipid common sense.

Robert Cecil, Lord Salisbury (1830-1903) British politician [Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury]
Letter to Lord Lytton (15 Jun 1877)

Salisbury, Robert Cecil (Lord) -- Letter to Sir Henry Peek (1888)

Dave — Mon, 26 May 2008 12:16:12 +0000

On general grounds I object to Parliament trying to regulate private morality in matters which only affects the person who commits the offence.

Robert Cecil, Lord Salisbury (1830-1903) British politician [Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury]
Letter to Sir Henry Peek (1888)

Salisbury, Robert Cecil (Lord) -- Speech to the Kingston and District Working Men’s Conservative Association (Jun 1883)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

By a free country, I mean a country where people are allowed, so long as they do not hurt their neighbours, to do as they like. I do not mean a country where six men may make five men do exactly as they like.

Robert Cecil, Lord Salisbury (1830-1903) British politician [Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury]
Speech to the Kingston and District Working Men’s Conservative Association (Jun 1883)