The succession multiplied the harm. Each passed on his conception of the papacy unchanged.
Preconceived, fixed notions can be more damaging than cannon.
He had been present in their minds not as a man but as an idea.
Of England's patrician class, the author writes: It was easy to be agreeable when everything was done to keep them in comfort and ease.
He had the ruthlessness of uninterrupted success.
The utility of perseverance in absurdity is more than I could ever discern. Edmund Burke
Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age.
The love of humanity does not prevent us from being good journalists.
Even his own speeches bored him.
Why, since folly or perversity is expected of individuals, should we expect anything else from government?
Diplomacy's primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION.
The author says one patrician English leader saw his relationship with the populace thusly: He wasn't responsible TO them. He was responsible FOR them. He was responsible for their care.
Books are humanity in print.
He believed that rank without power was a sham.
His only weakness was the habit of prophesying war within the next fortnight. George Bernard Shaw
Each one of us is serious individually, but together we become frivolous.
Civilians who volunteer generally wish to escape, not to share, privatizations worse than their own.
Advice to young Samuel Gompers that might apply in many other areas: Learn from socialism, but don't join it.
He was always acting, always enveloping himself in artificiality, perhaps to conceal the volcano within.
How much does a man's effort depend upon the age in which his work is cast? Pope Clement VII