They governed from duty, heritage and habit—and, as they saw it, from right.
To those who think them selves strong, force always seems the easiest solution.
Extravagant sartorial display had a purpose. It created the impression of wealth and power on the opponent and pride in the wearer which has been lost sight of in our nervously egalitarian times.
The fate of warnings in political affairs is to be futile when the recipient wishes otherwise.
The follies that produced the loss of American virtue following Vietnam begin with continuous overreacting, in the invention of endangered national security, the invention of vital interest, the inven...
He was always the bridge, between men as well as between ideas.
Awful momentum makes carrying through easier than calling off folly.
One Cardinal entered his cathedral for the first time at his funeral.
They resented the patronage they depended upon.
Confronted by menace or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely to examine it, understand it, and drefine it.
All this visible greatness was really one with Nineveh and Tyre.
He accomplished wonders of diplomacy on the principle, never give way, and never give offense.
Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex.
Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
Connection was the cement of the governing class.
No single characteristic ever overtakes an entire society.
Everything interested him and everything excited him.
The tribal pull of patriotism could have no better testimony.
Let us retreat when we can, not when we must. Lord Chatham
House speaker Thomas read could see the trend, but he could not have changed himself.