Liberal Democrat History Group - Researching historical topics, particularly those relating to the Liberal Democrats, Liberal Party and the SDP. Site includes a detailed history of the Liberal Party and its successors, bibliographies and other resources.
Liberal Party Leaders - Liberal and Liberal Democrat leaders in the House of Commons and the Lords from 1834 to the present. Includes election results for Thorpe, Steel, Ashdown and Kennedy.
The Whigs - Article examining the history of the precursor to the Liberal Party.
Liberal Democrat Manifestos - Provides the text of all Liberal Party, SDP and Liberal Democrat General Election manifestos from 1900 to the present.
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-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus History "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein History
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe History I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) History
A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun History "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( History
My other wife is beautiful. And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) History "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley History
If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca History If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard History
"One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Man and wife make one fool. True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne History Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt History
Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics History I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins History
"I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) History "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t History
Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins History This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero History
How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney History "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck History
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington History Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) History
