Party animosity was concealed under a veil of studied courtesy.
Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex.
Let us retreat when we can, not when we must. Lord Chatham
Drink thy blood, Beaumanoir, and thy thirst will pass!
A reformer exhorted children that they would succeed where he and his colleagues had failed with the charge: Live for that better day.
House speaker Thomas read could see the trend, but he could not have changed himself.
Disorder is the least tolerable up sinful conditions.
Britain had an air of careless supremacy which GALLED her neighbors.
Asked what would be his idea of Heaven, one statesman in 1897 said it would be to receive a flow of telegrams alternating news of a British victory by sea and a British victory by land.
Was compared by Dante to both a slave and a brothel.
The Republic cured me of the Republic.
When meeting criticism, he would regard it not as something to resent but as a thing to be examined, like an interesting beetle. That's a curious view, not uninteresting.
The English patrician bloomed in his natural climate.
If the historian will submit himself to his material instead of trying to impose himself on his material, then the material will ultimately speak to him and supply the answers.
Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition.
In proportion that property is small, the danger of misusing the franchisee is great.
Humanizing war?! You may as well talk of humanizing Hell. Sir John Fisher
He was the most persuasive speaker, less for his words than character behind them. He made every listener feel he had done his best to master every aspect of this question, who has been driven by logi...
Two years later the logic of the struggle led (Pope) John XXII to excommunicate William of Ockham, the English Franciscan, known for his forceful reasoning as the invincible doctor. In expounding a ph...
No one is is sure of his premise as the man who knows too little.