Men Are Only Clever At Shifting Blame

Better And Safer Is An Assured Peace Than A Victory Hoped For. The One Is In Your Own Power, The Other Is In The Hands Of The Gods.

Truth, They Say, Is But Too Often In Difficulties, But Is Never Finally Suppressed.

That Sense – The Only True Patriotism – Comes Slowly And Springs From The Heart: It Is Founded Upon Respect For The Family And Love For The Soil. Premature ‘liberty’ Of This Kind Would Have Been A Disaster: We Should Have Been Torn To Pieces By Petty Squabbles Before We Had Ever Reached Political Maturity, Which, As Things Were, As Made Possible By The Long Quiet Years Under Monarchical Government; For It Was That Government Which, As It Were, Nursed Our Strength And Enabled Us Ultimately To Produce Sound Fruit From Liberty, As Only A Politically Adult Nation Can.

Many Difficulties Which Nature Throws In Our Way, May Be Smoothed Away By The Exercise Of Intelligence.

Shared Danger Is The Strongest Of Bonds; It Will Keep Men United In Spite Of Mutual Dislike And Suspicion.