Posts in Government
Words Worth Noting - July 6, 2023

“Our army is composed of the scum of the earth – the mere scum of the earth.”

“The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact – they have all enlisted for drink.”

“The scum of the earth... but what fine soldiers we have made them.”

All from The Duke of Wellington according to AZ Quotes [https://www.azquotes.com/author/15482-Duke_of_Wellington] [and I think it only fair to put them all together for a complete picture].

Words Worth Noting - July 5, 2023

“It is needless to say that the journalists do not always tell the truth about the politicians. What surprises me is that so very often, it would seem, they do not even know the truth about them.”

G. K. Chesterton in New Witness Jan. 28, 1920 quoted in “Chesterton For Today” in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 25 #2 (November-December 2021)

Words Worth Noting - July 4, 2023

“There is a straight road which runs from Runnymede to Philadelphia. We did not ‘borrow’ provisions from the British Constitution, which had come from the people; those provisions were ours, paid for with the lives of our ancestors on many a battlefield. I have examined the matter. I tell you our Constitution came up from the body of a self-governing people. But we can lose our capacity to govern by its nonexercise.”

Congressman Hatton Sumners of Texas in 1937, quoted in Daniel Hannan, Inventing Freedom: How the English-Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World