List of United Kingdom Liberal Party Leaders

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“A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Modern tourist guides have helped raised tourist expectations. And they have provided the natives—from Kaiser Wilhelm down to the villagers of Chichacestenango—with a detailed and itemized list of what is expected of them and when. These are the up-to- date scripts for actors on the tourists’ stage.”
—Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)

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—James Madison (1751–1836)

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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“If a liberal policy towards the late Rebels is adopted, the ultra Republicans are opposed to it; if the colored people are honored, the extremists of the other wing cry out against it. I suspect I am right in both cases.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

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—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.”
—Abba Eban (b. 1915)