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...one of the most notable characteristics of any Age of Conflict is the effort to achieve economic expansion by political read more
...one of the most notable characteristics of any Age of Conflict is the effort to achieve economic expansion by political rather than by economic means.
You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.
You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.
What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to read more
What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?
The plans differ; the planners are all alike...
The plans differ; the planners are all alike...
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.
I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.
Glory is the child of peril.
Glory is the child of peril.
Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes."N.B.: A lesser-known version of this quotation was read more
Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes."N.B.: A lesser-known version of this quotation was supposedly said by Frederick the Great at Prague in 1757: "By push of bayonets, no firing till you see the whites of their eyes. - Battle of Bunker Hill, 1775.
The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and read more
The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even more, so that each of us may live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd.