Society and the World

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.

The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defence and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island.

The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defence and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island.

That the king can do no wrong, is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.

If there is ever another war in Europe, it will come out of some damned silly thing in the Balkans.

The king never dies.

This policy cannot succeed through speeches, and shooting-matches, and songs; it can only be carried out through blood and iron.

This policy cannot succeed through speeches, and shooting-matches, and songs; it can only be carried out through blood and iron.

I do not regard the procuring of peace as a matter in which we should play the role of arbiter between different opinions … more that of an honest broker who really wants to press the business forward.

I do not regard the procuring of peace as a matter in which we should play the role of arbiter between different opinions … more that of an honest broker who really wants to press the business forward.

Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong, [it is] a geographical concept.

Not worth the healthy bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier.

We will not go to Canossa.

We will not go to Canossa.

Politics is the art of the possible.

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

PEACE , n . In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

HISTORY , n . An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

CONSERVATIVE , n . A statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.

BATTLE , n . A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

BATTLE , n . A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

ALLIANCE , n. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pocket that they cannot separately plunder a third.

I [Krishna] am all-powerful Time which destroys all things, and I have come here to slay these men. Even if thou does not fight, all the warriors facing thee shall die. ch. 11, v. 32; see Oppenheimer 253:17

The question is not, Can they reason? nor,