“Liberal: a power worshipper without power.”
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.