11 Quotes by Ramsay MacDonald

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

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.

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

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

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.

The people do not mind fornication but they loathe adultery.

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

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