Britain had an air of careless supremacy which GALLED her neighbors.
A reformer exhorted children that they would succeed where he and his colleagues had failed with the charge: Live for that better day.
Party animosity was concealed under a veil of studied courtesy.
The scene is France. The theater is the world.
Pessimism is a primary source of passivity,
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
Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition.
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.
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...
Mankind's tragedy is that he can draw up blueprints for a better life but he cannot live up to them.
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.
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...
He never hears the truth about himself by not wishing to hear it. Pope Alexander
The English patrician bloomed in his natural climate.
No one is is sure of his premise as the man who knows too little.
Marco Polo dictated his Travels in French,
Disorder is the least tolerable up sinful conditions.
The early removal from school of future officers of Britain's seapower, leaving them unacquainted with the subject matter and ideas of the distant and recent past, may account for the incapacity of no...
Our misconception in viewing the past lies in assuming that doubt and fear, permit, protests, violence and hate were not equally present.