This country was founded by a group of slave owners who told us that all men are created equal.
Don’t take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, to the next county, to a foreign country, but NOT to where the guilt is.
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
It’s all one web, sir. The prosperity of the country is one web.
I thank God, I have been able, by adopting Principles of strict Economy and Frugality, to keep my principal, I mean my Country-Estate, unimpaired.
I have been for some time in Retirement, and shall not probably return again to public Life; yet my Anxiety for my Country, in these Times of Danger, makes me sometimes dabble a little in Politicks, and keep up a Correspondence with some Men upon the public Stage.
We owe to our Mother-Country the Duty of Subjects but will not pay her the Submission of Slaves.
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.
England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.
Winston Churchill could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war.
To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
Preventive war is a crime not easily committed by a country that retains any traces of democracy.
Since pacifists have more freedom of action in countries where traces of democracy survive, pacifism can act more effectively against democracy than for it. Objectively the pacifist is pro-Nazi.
I would sooner be a foreigner in Spain than in most countries. How easy it is to make friends in Spain!
In so far as it takes effect at all, pacifist propaganda can only be effective against those countries where a certain amount of freedom of speech is still permitted; in other words it is helpful to totalitarianism.
In my opinion nothing has contributed more to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country.
England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly.
The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country.