“In the midst of all these innumerable forms of a common protest and universal ill-ease there has grown up one definite body of doctrine whose adherents are called Communists and who desired the total subversion of what had been, hitherto unquestioned among civilized European men, the general doctrines of property and individual freedom.” MenWisdomBodyFormPoliticsIndividualCommonEconomyUniversalPropertyIllDoctrineEaseLiberalismProtestMidstCivilizedCommunistDefiniteIndividual FreedomSubversion Author:Hilaire Belloc
“Popularity disarms envy in well-disposed minds. Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others who feel that the world has done them justice. When success has not this effect in opening the mind, it is a sign that it has been ill deserved.” WorldFeelsMindWellsHas BeensDonePoliticsJusticeEffectsReadyIllEnvyOpeningPopularity Book:Characteristics: In the Manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims Source: Characteristics: In the Manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims
“A politician must often talk and act before he has thought and read. He may be very ill informed respecting a question: all his notions about it may be vague and inaccurate; but speak he must. And if he is a man of ability, of tact, and of intrepidity, he soon finds that, even under such circumstances, it is possible to speak successfully.” IfsMenMayPoliticsSpeakAbilityPoliticianCircumstancesNotionIllVagueTact Author:Thomas B. Macaulay