Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent ...and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit, and to mothball h...is opinions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You will recall the proud statement made recently by a Fascist general--"We have four columns in front of Madrid and a fifth insid...e the city."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of them survivors of and devotee...s to past revolutions, without insight into the present movement, but preserving popular influence by their known honesty and courage, or by the sheer force of tradition; others mere brawlers, who, by dint of repeating year after year the same set of stereotyped declamations against the government of the day, have sneaked into the reputation of revolutionists of the first water.... They are an unavoidable evil: with time they are shaken off.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
General McLaidlaw: Lena will never marry. She's not the marrying sort. I see no reason to worry. There's enough to care for her fo...r the rest of her life. Mrs. McLaidlaw: I suppose you're right, dear. I'm afraid she is rather spinsterish. General McLaidlaw: What's wrong with that. The old maid's a respectable institution. All women are not alike. Lena has intellect and a fine solid character.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our hearts you see not; they are pitiful; And pity to the general wrong of Rome--... As fire drives out fire, so pity pity-- Hath done this deed on Caesar.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »