David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech

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United Kingdom, Diplomat
May 20, 1918 – January, 26, 1985.

William David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech KCMG PC DL known as David Ormsby-Gore until 1964, was a British diplomat and Conservative politician.

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The notion dies hard that in some sort of way exports are patriotic but imports are immoral.

David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech
It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump.

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In the end it may well be that Britain will be honored by the historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.

David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech
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