Ramsay MacDonald Quotes

We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn't it time that we should take risks to secure peace?

We shall never be able to effect physical disarmament until we have succeeded in effecting moral disarmament.

Wars are popular. Contractors make profits; the aristocracy glean honour.

The trade-unionist has the same limitation imposed upon him as the capitalist. He cannot advance his interests at the expense of society.

We hear war called murder. It is not; it is suicide.

The man who saves time by galloping loses it by missing his way; the shepherd who hurries his flock to get them home spends the night on the mountain looking for the lost; economy does not consist in haste, but in certainty.

Society goes on and on and on. It is the same with ideas.

The people do not mind fornication but they loathe adultery.

It is not God but the Devil who is in charge of the international situation and those who are working for God in it are poor servants if all they do is worship God and neglect their duty to cincumvent the Devil.

Tomorrow every Duchess in London will be waiting to kiss me.

Golf is to me what his Sabine farm was to the poet Horace - a solace and an inspiration.