Quotes from Political Portraits — Charles Whibley
1859–1930 England
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Genius transcends the common rules of life and blood.
Political Portraits (1917)
The poet of England, he gave to the love of country, to patriotism as nowadays we call it, a voice which never shall be stilled. His histories are, and will ever be, the epic of our race.
Political Portraits (1917)
Like most Radicals, he [Richard Cobden] lived in a fool's paradise where facts are of no account, and where, if principles prove fallacious, it is not the fault of the optimist who frames them, but of some vile conspirator against the common good.
Political Portraits (1917)