Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English politician George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax.

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George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax,, was an English statesman, writer, and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660, and in the House of Lords after he was raised to the peerage in 1668.

English - Politician | November 11, 1633 - April 5, 1695

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The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation.

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place.

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Being wise doth either make men our friends or discourage them from being our enemies.

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

The lower sort of men must be indulged the consolation of finding fault with those above them; without that, they would be so melancholy that it would be dangerous, considering their numbers.

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

The sense of ultimate truth is the intellectual counterpart of the esthetic sense of perfect beauty, or the moral sense of perfect good.

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

To the question, What shall we do to be saved in this World? there is no other answer but this, Look to your Moat.

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

If politicians would think more they would act less.

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax