SAYINGS OF LEADERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 218, 13 September 1924, Page 24

SAYINGS OF LEADERS.

If you cannot lango at yourself life must be'pretty dull for you.—Grock.

Morality can always afford to wait, since ft triumphs in the end.—Mr. Augustine Birrell.

Liberty te far more easily destroyed by those who abuse it than by those who oppose it.—Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald.

The voice of the people'is the voice of a parrot.—Dean Inge.

I must say that there are too many strikes In England.—Signor Nitti. -

Angry men (with toe solitary exception of Thomas Carlyle) never do good work.— Mr. Philip Guedalla.

I should have been not only a less useful man, but a much poorer and less successful one as a Conservative.—Mr. Bernard Shaw.

If Hamlet had gone to one of our public schools he would have been a very different fellow from what he was.—Mr. Stacy Aumonier.

What is the good of a wife if she cannot mend trousers?— Mr. Mead (Marlborough Street Magistrate).

Every man who by word and deed proclaims tbat he will not be a cog in any machine for grinding ont co-operative iniquity is a valuable citizen and a true Christian.—Dean Inge.

The Party System was founded on our national notion of fair play: it was not sportsmanlike that one side should have a rich accumulation of rubbish, while' the other-was left with nothing but the_ bare truth.—Mr. G. K. Chesterton.

Why do people try to whitewash genins?—Sir A. Quiller-Couch. \ '.-

Britain acted the part of fairy godmother in the war. and it is high time the Allied peoples .realised it.—Sir Arthur Balfour..

Labour lawyers are no better than lawyers belonging to the other two parties.— Mr. Klrkwood, -J.