...he sent letters to all the royal provinces, to every province in its own script and to every people in its own language, declar...ing that every man should be master in his own house.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and p...rincess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An afternoon of nurses and rumours; The provinces of his body revolted,... The squares of his mind were empty, Silence invaded the suburbs,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The essence of guerrilla warfare is to establish foci, or liberated areas, in the countryside and to set up small military units w...hich will gradually grow in strength, number and equipment--from squads to companies and regiments, eventually to divisions and armies, as in Yugoslavia and China during the Second World War--in order to fight battles against government troops. In the liberated areas, the guerrillas establish their own institutions, conduct propaganda and engage in other open political activities. None of this applies to terrorists, whose base of operations is in the cities, and who have to operate clandestinely in small units. Any major concentration would immediately expose them to retaliation by the government. The terrorists may be part of a political movement that engages in propaganda and other political activities (such as the IRA and the Basque ETA), but there is a strict division of labor between the legal and the military arms of the movement.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it [the territory] is worth. Empires which branch out widel...y are often more flourishing for a little timely pruning.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in o...ur conduct.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The makers of the American Revolution had been quite content to work with man as he is, shaped by traditional kinship, local, and ...religious institutions. For the Jacobins, however, nothing would do but the remaking of man through the power of the state. Hence, the abolition, commencing in 1790, of the ancient estates, the monarchy, the aristocracy, the communes and provinces, the patriarchal family, the guild, the school and university, and any other structures which, by their long existence, might interfere with the state's work of remaking human consciousness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The soldier here, as everywhere in Canada, appeared to be put forward, and by his best foot. They were in the proportion of the so...ldiers to the laborers in an African ant-hill.... On every prominent ledge you could see England's hands holding the Canadas, and I judged from the redness of her knuckles that she would soon have to let go.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »