I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his... country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth: for kings are not only God's Lieutenants upon earth, and sit upon God's t...hrone, but even by God himself they are called gods.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
History cannot, like physical science, deduce causal laws of general application. All attempts have failed to discover laws of "ca...use and effect" which are certain to repeat themselves in the institutions and affairs of men. The law of gravitation may be scientifically proved because it is universal and simple. But the historical law that starvation brings on revolt is not proved; indeed the opposite statement, that starvation leads to abject submission, is equally true in the light of past events. You cannot so completely isolate any historical event from its circumstances as to be able to deduce from it a law of general application. Only politicians adorning their speeches with historical arguments have this power; and even they never agree. An historical event cannot be isolated from its circumstances, any more than the onion from its skins, because an event is itself nothing but a set of circumstances, none of which will ever recur.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensati...ons and cheap appeals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the n...ature of true knowledge.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why should I go to England with her? Because you bid me, or because she wishes it,--or simply because England is the most damnable..., Puritanical, God-forgotten, and stupid country on the face of the globe?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »