A British Heritage Commonplace Book
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ADDTWO DESIGN AND PRINT MANAGEMENT
In which we reflect on themes introduced in these pages.
I never saw a richer country or to speak my mind a finer people. The worst of them is the bitter and envenomed dislike which they have to each other, their factions having been so long envenomed and having so little ground to fight their battle in that they are like people fighting with daggers in a hogshead.
Sir Walter Scott,
letter to Joanna Baillie
The last temptation is the greatest treason:
To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
To become servant of God was never my wish.
Servant of God has chance of greater sin
And sorrow, than the man who serves a king.
T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral
Nothing can be said in his vindication, but that his abolishing Religious Houses and leaving them to the ruinous depredations of time has been of infinite use to the landscape of England in general.
Jane Austen on Henry VIII
When learning’s triumph o’er her barb’rous foes
First rear’d the Stage, immortal Shakespeare rose;
Each change of many-color’d life he drew,
Exhausted worlds, and then imagined new.
Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign,
And panted Time toil’d after him in vain.
Samuel Johnson, London
From the speeches of Winston Churchill:
Many forms of government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion’s heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.
We must be united, we must be undaunted we must be inflexible. Our qualities and deeds must burn and glow through the gloom of Europe until they become the veritable beacon of its salvation.
I have never asked for an Anglo-American military alliance or a Treaty, I have asked for something different, and in a sense I have asked for something more. I asked for fraternal association, free, voluntary, fraternal association. I have no doubts that it will come to pass, as surely as the Sun will rise tomorrow.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.
In war, resolution; in defeat, defiance; in victory, magnanimity; in peace, goodwill.
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