British Conservative Politician

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“The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters.”
—Robert Morley (1908–1992)

“Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a slave to the most incidental and trivial part of his forefathers’ glory—to the archaic formula which happened to express their genius or the eighteenth-century contrivance by which for a time it was served.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)

“A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.”
—Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965)