Wit and Wisdom: A Public Affairs MiscellanyColin Bingham john gunn, 1982 - 357 pages |
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... election you feel like the little boy who stubbed his toe in the dark . He said he was too old to cry , but it hurt too much to laugh . ABRAHAM LINCOLN I would have all men know this much : that it's no jesting with a court of ...
... election you feel like the little boy who stubbed his toe in the dark . He said he was too old to cry , but it hurt too much to laugh . ABRAHAM LINCOLN I would have all men know this much : that it's no jesting with a court of ...
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... Elections and the ballot box make sense only if parties are assumed to intend the natural meaning of their words , and democracy will speedily disappear if it is turned into a version of the card game called ' Cheat ' . ENOCH POWELL ...
... Elections and the ballot box make sense only if parties are assumed to intend the natural meaning of their words , and democracy will speedily disappear if it is turned into a version of the card game called ' Cheat ' . ENOCH POWELL ...
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... elections . He once quoted the following lines from Monk Gibbon , the Irish writer and patriot , to contrast the ' before ' and ' after ' of an election : Of all the cocks that greeted dawn today How many will be heard a year from now ...
... elections . He once quoted the following lines from Monk Gibbon , the Irish writer and patriot , to contrast the ' before ' and ' after ' of an election : Of all the cocks that greeted dawn today How many will be heard a year from now ...
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... election held in the following month . During his prime minister- ship he became famous for his ' style ' as a political leader . Whitlam himself once described that style as , ' You either crash through or crash ' . However , Graham ...
... election held in the following month . During his prime minister- ship he became famous for his ' style ' as a political leader . Whitlam himself once described that style as , ' You either crash through or crash ' . However , Graham ...
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... sense which can be attached to it , the only thing on which good government depends ; neither can this identity of interest be secured by the mere conditions of election . MACAULAY There was an old bear at the zoo , Who 1 25 Public Life.
... sense which can be attached to it , the only thing on which good government depends ; neither can this identity of interest be secured by the mere conditions of election . MACAULAY There was an old bear at the zoo , Who 1 25 Public Life.
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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.