“To see [Pope John Paul II, Karol] Wojtyla as a ‘Christian radical,’ then, is to try to understand his radicalism as an example of what the American philosopher Alfred North Whitehead once described as the simplicity that lies on the far side of complexity.”
George Weigel Witness to Hope [noting that the etymological root of radical is the Latin radix meaning root].
“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].
In my latest Epoch Times column I ponder uneasily what George Washington, or indeed Sir John A. Macdonald or the Duke of Wellington, would make of modern politics.
“Here again, to use Napoleon’s maxim, geography explains history.”
John A. Garraty and Peter Gay, eds, The Columbia History of the World
“Hard pounding, gentlemen. Let’s see who pounds the longest.”
The Duke of Wellington according to AZ Quotes [https://www.azquotes.com/author/15482-Duke_of_Wellington]
“Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.”
The Duke of Wellington according to AZ Quotes [https://www.azquotes.com/author/15482-Duke_of_Wellington]
In my latest Loonie Politics column I mock policymakers and pundits who say the laws of economics have changed because they haven’t but these trendy faddists thought they had.
“... the combination of planning, courage, error and pure chance by which great events are often decided.”
Opening text to movie Midway.