Barons Quotes

Call me Sir if you like! Maybe people in America think being a Sir is a big deal. But I think we should all be misters together. I think the Sir thing slightly perpetuates one of our diseases in England, which is snobbery. And it also helps keep us `quaint,` which I`m not a great fan of. You don`t get much with the title anymore. That was all carved up by the robber barons in the Middle Ages.

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron`s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports.

I played with the Birmingham Black Barons. I was making 500 at 14. That was a lot of money in those days.

We are not land barons.

Among conservatives there`s been too much pseudo-populism, almost too much concern and attention for, quote, `the people`... After all, we conservatives are on the side of the lords and barons... We...are pulling up the drawbridge against the peasants.