British politician and prime minister (1830-1903)
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He ran Britain for thirteen years without leaving the House of Lords, the last prime minister to govern entirely from the upper chamber. Lord Salisbury held foreign policy like a chess problem: avoid entanglements, carve Africa without firing shots, keep Europe at arm's length under "splendid isolation."
Robert Cecil entered the Commons in 1854 and climbed through India Office postings until Disraeli made him foreign secretary in 1878, where he helped broker the Congress of Berlin. After Disraeli died in 1881, Salisbury became Conservative leader in the Lords and first took the premiership in June 1885. When Gladstone backed Irish Home Rule the next year, Salisbury split the Liberals by allying with Unionist defectors and won the 1886 election. That second term delivered his sharpest work: Britain claimed the lion's share of African territory in the Scramble without major war. He lost in 1892,…
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The really remarkable fact which is to be inferred from the conduct of the Southern States is, the genuine alarm with which they regarded the workings of Democracy. ...
First-rate men will not canvass mobs; and if they did, the mobs would not elect the first-rate men.
[T]here is no more formidable obstacle than the Established Church to the spirit of rash and theoretic change which we, almost alone among the nations, have escaped .
And above and beyond the mere commercial gain, there rose under Mr.
Wherever democracy has prevailed, the power of the State has been used in some form or other to plunder the well-to-do classes for the benefit of the poor.
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