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The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion

The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion. – Stanley Baldwin

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You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain. – Stanley Baldwin

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Power without responsibility — the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages. – Stanley Baldwin

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Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. – Herbert Hoover

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We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed whatever brute and blackguard made the world. – A.E. Housman

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Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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