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Article: Tories are the only real liberals left.(Column)
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- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 4, 2005
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Byline: WILLIAM REES-MOGG
One should never underestimate Eton.
Admittedly, Byron did not go there, but Shelley did; the great Duke of Marlborough, who defeated Louis XIV, did not, but the greater Duke of Wellington, who defeated Napoleon, did.
Disraeli did not go there, but Gladstone did; Churchill, who saved the free world, did not, but Pitt the Elder, an even more victorious war Minister, did. Attlee, who gave Britain state socialism, did not, but Robert Walpole, who gave us 20 years of peace and created the office of Prime Minister, did.
Among the world's great economists, Adam Smith did not, but Maynard Keynes did; Nelson, who won ...