Nineteenth-century liberalism had assumed that man was a rational being who operated naturally according to his own best interests, so that in the end, what was reasonable would prevail. On this princ...
His one essay in love had exhausted his powers in that direction.
Government was rarely more than a choice between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
Drink thy blood, Beaumanoir, and thy thirst will pass!
Can the military art be learned in the games and hunts in which you pass your youth? The
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.
Proper society did not think about MAKING money, only about spending it.
Policy was not reconsidered because the governing group had no habit of purposeful consultation.
He seemed less in need of a secretary than of someone to listen to him.
Far from a source of suffering, their adopted faith had been a source of power.
Belgium, where there occurred one of the rare appearances of the hero in history, was lifted above herself by the uncomplicated conscience of her King and, faced with the choice to acquiesce or resist...
The overpowering unimportance of this MAKES ME SPEECHLESS. – Speaker of the House of Representatives Thomas Reed
Reproaches himself for recoiling from the stench of the poor and the sick,
The history of the Jews is…intensely peculiar in the fact of having given the Western world its concept of origins and monotheism, its ethical traditions, and the founder of its prevailing religion, y...
If they are afraid of revision in the laboratory, truth will never be released except by accident.
With that characteristic touch of late-Romanov rashness, the government, by ukase of August 22, extended prohibition for the duration of the war. As the sale of vodka was a state monopoly, this act at...
The greatness of the object enabled my mind to support what my strengths of body was scarce equal to.
The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman.
Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government.
England's traditional tolerance was outraged at last.