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{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The Duty of an Opposition is to oppose. Quoted by Randolph Churchill. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Stanley) | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Politics | page = 611 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 5 | text = One of the greatest of Romans, when asked what were his politics, replied, "Imperium et libertas." That would not make a bad programme for a British Ministry. Randolph Churchill—Speech. Mansion House, London. Nov. 10, 1879. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Politics | page = 611 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Here the two great interests Imperium et LibertaSj res olim insociabiles (saith Tacitus), began to incounter each other. Sir Winston Churchill—Dim BrUannici. P. 849. (1675) | topic = Politics | page = 611 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Nam ego in ista sum sententia, qua te fuisse semper scio, nihil ut feurit in suffragiis voce melius. I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce" voting at elections is the best method. Cicero—De Legions. III. 15. Philippics. IV. 4. Tacitus—Agricola. Ch. III. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Politics | page = 611 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 5 | text = It is a condition which confronts us—not a theory. Grover Cleveland—Annual Message. (1887) | seealso = (See also {{sc|Disraeli}}) | topic = Politics | page = 611 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Party honesty is party expediency. Grover Cleveland—Interview in New York Commercial Advertiser. Sept. 19, 1889. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Politics | page = 611 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Laissez faire, laissez passer. Let it alone. Let it pass by. Colbert, according to Lord John Russell. See report of his speech in the London Times, April 2, 1840. Attributed to Gournat, Minister of Commerce, at Paris, 1751. Also to Quesnat. Quoted by Adam Smith—Wealth of Nations. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Politics | page = 611 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient. Benj. Disraeli—On Import Duties. April 25, 1843. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Cleveland) The Right Honorable gentleman [Sir Robert Peel] caught the Whigs bathing and walked away with their clothes. Benj. Disraeli—Speech. House of Commons, Feb. 28, 1845. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Politics | page = 611 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Party is organized opinion. Benj. Disraeli—Speech. Oxford, Nov. 25, 1864. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Politics | page = 611 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Principle is ever my motto, no expediency. Benj. Disraeli—Sybil. Bk. II. Ch. II. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Cleveland}}) | topic = Politics | page = 611 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Information upon points of practical politics. Benj. Disraeli—Vivian Gray. Ch. XIV. Given by Walsh as first appearance of the phrase "practical politics." All the ten-to-oners were in the rear, and a dark horse, which had never been thought of, and which the careless St. James had never even observed in the list, rushed past the grand stand in sweeping triumph. Benj. Disraeli—The Young Duke. Bk. II. Ch.V. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Thackeray}}) | topic = Politics | page = 611 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Damned Neuters, in their Middle way of Steering, Are neither Fish, nor Flesh, nor good Red Herring. Dryden—Duke of Guise. Epilogue. Phrase used by Dr. Smith. Ballet. Ch. LX. In Musarum Delicice. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Politics | page = 611 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = What is a Communist? One who has yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings. Ebenezer Elliot—Epigrams. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Politics | page = 611 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = All political power is a trust. Charles James Fox. (1788) | topic = Politics | page = 611 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Oh! we'll give 'em Jessie When we rally round the polls. Popular song of Fremont's Supporters in the Presidential Campaign of 1856. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Politics | page = 611 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = I always voted at my party's call, And I never thought of thinking for myself at all. W. S. GHiBERT—H. M. S. Pinafore. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Politics | page = 611 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Measures, not men, have always been my mark. | author = Goldsmith | work = Good-Natured Man. Act II. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Burke}}) | topic = Politics | page = 611 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. | author = Goldsmith | work = Retaliation. L. 31. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Politics | page = 611 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Who will burden himself with your liturgical parterre when the burning questions [brennende Fragen] of the day invite to very different toils? Hagenbach—Grundlinien der Liturgik und ffomiletik. (1803) "Burning question" used by Edward Miall, M.P., also by Disraeli in the House of Commons, March, 1873. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Politics | page = 611 }}