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“The State, that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees.”

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V. S. Pritchett was a British writer renowned for his short stories, novels, and literary criticism. Born on December 16, 1900, in London, he spent much of his life in the United States before returning to England in his later years. Pritchett's work frequently delved into the intricacies of human relationships and the social and political shifts of the 20th century. more

“We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.”

Country Reality Lines United Behinds Class Successful Policy Concerned Rate Ministers Foreign Policy Sections Governing Influential

Author:A. J. P. Taylor

“George VI in the conventional parlance was a Good King who sacrificed his life to his sense of duty. If we are to have monarchs it would be hard to find a better one.”

Ifs Hard Would Be Duty Kings Conventional Monarchs Good Kings

Author:A. J. P. Taylor

“When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.”

Writing Care Mistake Achievement Historical British Loyalty Historical Truth

Author:A. J. P. Taylor

“Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.”

Littles Rage Terrorist Fascism Gangsters

Author:A. J. P. Taylor

“To believe is to be happy; to doubt is to be wretched. To believe is to be strong. Doubt cramps energy. Belief is power. Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do any thing that is worth the doing.”

Men Believe Belief Energy Strong Doubt Wretched Cramps

Book:Sermons Preached at Brighton

Source: Sermons Preached at Brighton

“Now see what a Christian is, drawn by the hand of Christ. He is a man on whose clear and open brow God has set the stamp of truth; one whose very eye beams bright with honor; in whose very look and bearing you may see freedom, manliness, veracity; a brave man--a noble man--frank, generous, true, with, it may be, many faults; whose freedom may take the form of impetuosity or rashness, but the form of meanness never.”

Source: ser. 1 God's revelation of heaven [and other sermons]. ser. 2 Christ's judgement respecting inheritance [and other sermons]. ser. 3 The tongue [and other sermons

“Only in the sacredness of inward silence does the soul truly meet the secret, hiding God. The strength of resolve, which afterward shapes life, and mixes itself with action, is the fruit of those sacred, solitary moments. There is a divine depth in silence. We meet God alone.”

Doe Soul Moments Action Secret Silence Divine Shapes Sacred Fruit Depth Resolve Hiding Solitary Inward Sacredness

Book:Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Second Series

Source: Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Second Series

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