Wit and Wisdom: A Public Affairs MiscellanyColin Bingham john gunn, 1982 - 357 pages |
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... CHURCHILL There are very few parliamentarians who do not profess to be good party men . The claim , however , is rarely put with the enthusiasm . of William McMahon , who when he became Prime Minister of Australia in March 1971 ...
... CHURCHILL There are very few parliamentarians who do not profess to be good party men . The claim , however , is rarely put with the enthusiasm . of William McMahon , who when he became Prime Minister of Australia in March 1971 ...
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... Churchill during World War II , seem astonishingly matched to the hour of their service . MICHAEL NOVAK It is useless to find fault with politicians , who have to play the cards that are dealt to them — generally a ' spade ' hand — and ...
... Churchill during World War II , seem astonishingly matched to the hour of their service . MICHAEL NOVAK It is useless to find fault with politicians , who have to play the cards that are dealt to them — generally a ' spade ' hand — and ...
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... Churchill : " There was a layer of seventeenth century , a layer of eighteenth century , a layer of nineteenth century and possibly even a layer of twentieth century . You were never sure which layer would be uppermost . ' Past and ...
... Churchill : " There was a layer of seventeenth century , a layer of eighteenth century , a layer of nineteenth century and possibly even a layer of twentieth century . You were never sure which layer would be uppermost . ' Past and ...
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... in their youth . They have to wait for historians to discover that some of them are giants too . I think that Winston [ Churchill ] really did stand head and shoulders above his contemporaries , but perhaps it 14 1 Wit and Wisdom.
... in their youth . They have to wait for historians to discover that some of them are giants too . I think that Winston [ Churchill ] really did stand head and shoulders above his contemporaries , but perhaps it 14 1 Wit and Wisdom.
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... CHURCHILL , 1974 Politicians , we are always being told , are not what they were . Their stature has been steadily declining since the days of Gladstone and Disraeli when giants stalked the corridors of Westminster ... I am prepared to ...
... CHURCHILL , 1974 Politicians , we are always being told , are not what they were . Their stature has been steadily declining since the days of Gladstone and Disraeli when giants stalked the corridors of Westminster ... I am prepared to ...
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A. N. WHITEHEAD American asked become believe better Bevin British C. L. SULZBERGER Cabinet century civilization CLEMENCEAU COLERIDGE Conservative D. H. LAWRENCE death declared democracy democratic diplomatic DISRAELI E. H. CARR EDMUND BURKE election England ERNEST BEVIN famous favour feeling foreign France FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT French Gaulle German Gladstone HENRY House of Commons human ideas IDEM India intellectual JAMES JOHN MORLEY journalist justice Labour leader liberty live Lloyd George London look Lord LORD SALISBURY means mind modern moral Napoleon nation nature never newspaper once opinion Parliament party philosopher political politicians President Prime Minister principles Professor remark replied ROBERT Roosevelt Secretary social society speaking speech Stalin STANLEY BALDWIN statesman T. H. HUXLEY T. S. ELIOT things thought Truman truth WILLIAM WINSTON CHURCHILL wisdom words writing wrote
Popular passages
Page 123 - They never fail who die In a great cause : the block may soak their gore ; Their heads may sodden in the sun ; their limbs Be strung to city gates and castle walls — But still their spirit walks abroad. Though years Elapse, and others share as dark a doom, They but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts Which overpower all others, and conduct The world at last to freedom.
Page 124 - ... the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried outy!
Page 212 - Among all my patients in the second half of life — that is to say, over thirty-five — there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life. It is safe to say that every one of them fell ill because he had lost that which the living religions of every age have given to their followers, and none of them has been really healed who did not regain his religious outlook.
Page 211 - I FLED Him, down the nights and down the days; I fled Him, down the arches of the years; I fled Him, down the labyrinthine ways Of my own mind; and in the mist of tears I hid from Him, and under running laughter. Up vistaed hopes, I sped; And shot, precipitated, Adown Titanic glooms of chasmed fears, From those strong Feet that followed, followed after.
Page 93 - A ship lost at sea for many days suddenly sighted a friendly vessel. From the mast of the unfortunate vessel was seen a signal: "Water, water; we die of thirst!" The answer from the friendly vessel at once came back: "Cast down your bucket where you are.
Page 72 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Page 125 - If all mankind, minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
Page 216 - A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.
Page 56 - The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of dispriz'd love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin?
Page 134 - I put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. And the cause of this is not always that a man hopes for a more intensive delight than he has already attained to, or that he cannot be content with a moderate power; but because he cannot assure the power and means to live well which he hath present, without the acquisition of more.