Frases de Arthur James Balfour

Arthur James Balfour, primer conde de Balfour, KG, OM, PC fue un político y estadista británico que se convirtió en el trigésimo tercer primer ministro de ese país.

Nacido en Escocia y educado como filósofo, Balfour entró por primera vez en la Cámara de los Comunes en la elección de 1874. Visto a primera vista algo así como un diletante , consiguió relevancia como Secretario de Irlanda de 1887 a 1891. En este puesto, fue autor del Acta de Crímenes Perpetuos , o Acta de Coerción, que aspiraba a prevenir el boicoteo, intimidación y reunión ilegal en Irlanda durante la Guerra de la Tierra.

Balfour sucedió a su tío, Lord Salisbury, como líder de los tories y Primer Ministro en julio de 1902 . Como primer ministro, sucedieron eventos como la Entente Cordiale, pero su partido se dividió por la reforma de las tarifas y en diciembre de 1905 cedió el poder a los liberales. Continuó como líder de la oposición durante la crisis del Acta Parlamentaria y el Presupuesto Popular del gobierno de Lloyd George, pero al fallar en conseguir la victoria en las dos elecciones habidas en 1910 terminó renunciando como líder en noviembre de 1911.

Regresó al Gobierno como Primer Lord del Almirantazgo en la coalición gubernamental de 1915, siendo después Ministro de Asuntos Exteriores de 1916 a 1919. En este puesto fue conocido internacionalmente por haber dado su nombre a la Declaración Balfour a través de la cual el Gobierno británico apoyó en 1917 las aspiraciones sionistas de creación de un «hogar nacional» judío en Palestina. Wikipedia  

✵ 25. julio 1848 – 19. marzo 1930
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Arthur James Balfour: Frases en inglés

“Everything that happened, good or bad, would subtract something from the lessening store of useful energy, till a time arrived when nothing could happen any more, and the universe, frozen into eternal repose, would for ever be as if it were not.”

Theism and humanism
Contexto: Everything that happened, good or bad, would subtract something from the lessening store of useful energy, till a time arrived when nothing could happen any more, and the universe, frozen into eternal repose, would for ever be as if it were not. /.../ The physical course of nature does not merely fail to indicate design, it seems loudly to proclaim its absence.

“Here we have values which by supposition we are reluctant to lose. Neither scientific observation nor sober sense can preserve them. It is surely permissible to ask what will.”

Theism and humanism
Contexto: Romantic love goes far beyond race requirements. From this point of view it is as useless as aesthetic emotion itself. And, like aesthetic emotion of the profounder sort, it is rarely satisfied with the definite, the limited, and the immediate. It ever reaches out towards an unrealised infinity. It cannot rest content with the prose of mere fact. It sees visions and dreams dreams which to an unsympathetic world seem no better than amiable follies. Is it from sources like these—the illusions of love and the enthusiasms of ignorance—that we propose to supplement the world-outlook provided for us by sober sense and scientific observation?
Yet why not? Here we have values which by supposition we are reluctant to lose. Neither scientific observation nor sober sense can preserve them. It is surely permissible to ask what will.

“We now know too much about matter to be materialists.”

Theism and humanism
Contexto: We now know too much about matter to be materialists. The very essence of the physical order of things is that it creates nothing new. Change is never more than a redistribution of that which never changes. But sensibility belongs to the world of consciousness, not to the world of matter.

“Our whole political machinery presupposes a people so fundamentally at one that they can safely afford to bicker.”

Introduction to Walter Bagehot's The English Constitution (London: Oxford University Press, 1928), p. xxiv.

“The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.”

Speech (7 May 1926), reported in The Observer (14 November 1926), quoted in Robert Andrews, The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations (2003)

/ Lord President of the Council

“…there were some things that were true, and some things that were trite; but what was true was trite, and what was not trite was not true…”

Quoted by Winston Churchill in his Great Contemporaries (London & New York, 1937) p. 250 http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/speeches/quotations/quotes-falsely-attributed

“The Irish had owed their success to crime. Winston practically admitted it. They had defied British rule,—and British rulers had given in to them. How could such a state of things be said to fit in with the scheme of the Empire?”

Remarks after the publication of Winston Churchill's book The Aftermath (1929), quoted in Blanche E. C. Dugdale, Arthur James Balfour, First Earl of Balfour, K.G., O.M., F.R.S., Etc. 1906–1930 (London: Hutchinson & Co. Ltd, 1936), p. 248
Lord President of the Council

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