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If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
English Social History (1942)
The sum total of progress associated with the Industrial Revolution has not been wholly for the good of man.
Kindly old England has always in the long run revolted against "fascist" experiments at the permanent suppression of "the other side".
England Under Queen Anne: The Peace and the Protestant Succession (1934)
Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.
History of England (1960)
Security and liberty were obtained under the Hanoverian Constitution, because, under Walpole, the Whigs became, what they had not always been, the "moderate men."
England Under Queen Anne: The Peace and the Protestant Succession (1934)
Because James II had attempted to destroy the institutions of the country, it long remained impossible for anyone else to attempt their reform.
In those days, before it became scientific, cricket was the best game in the world to watch, with its rapid sequence of amusing incidents, each ball a potential crisis!
English Social History (1942)
The erection of British naval and commercial supremacy on a footing that proved permanent for more than two hundred years, might not unreasonably be regarded as the most important outcome of the reign of Anne.
England Under Queen Anne: Blenheim (1930)
[Education] has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
English Social History (1942)
It is significant of much that in the seventeenth century members of Parliament quoted from the Bible; in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries from the classics; in the twentieth century from nothing at all.
British History in the Nineteenth Century (1782–1901) (1922)
Their demands were limited and practical, and for that reason they successfully initiated a movement that led in the end to yet undreamt-of liberties for all.
A Shortened History of England (1959)
The specific work of the early Eighteenth Century in England, on the line down which it was launched by the events of Anne's reign, was the establishment of the rule of law, and that law a law of liberty. On that solid foundation the reforms of succeeding epochs have been based.
England Under Queen Anne: The Peace and the Protestant Succession (1934)
I am sure I am as little of a Jacobite as anybody but I sincerely hope that the statue of James II will not be moved, because it is a fine work of art. If once we begin moving statues for political or historical reasons there will be no end to controversy.
The discredit to the good name of England if she drifts, however unintentionally, into a partition of the Persian State with the Russian Government, and the consequent setback to the moral element in our foreign policy, cannot lightly be faced.