Crisis and conflict seem to bring out the worst or best in a man.
John Lentell
19th January, 1969
Month: August 2010
Monday’s Piece
“Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.”
(Edmund Burke, 1729 – 1797)
John Lentell
18th January, 1969
Sunday’s Piece
“The mules of politics: without pride of ancestry, or hope of posterity.”
(John O’Connor Power, 1846 – 1919)
John Lentell
17th January, 1969
Saturday’s Piece
“Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.”
(Thomas Huxley, 1825 – 1895)
John Lentell
16th Janury, 1969
Friday’s Piece
“…never yet
Was noble man but made made ignoble talk.
He makes no friend who never made a foe.”
(Tennyson, 1809 – 1892)
John Lentell
15th January, 1969
Thursday’s Piece
“Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret.”
(Benjamin Disraeli, 1804 – 1881)
John Lentell
14th January, 1969
Wednesday’s Piece
“By office boys for office boys.”
(Remark about the Daily Mail by Robert Cecil, Lord Salisbury 1830 -1903)
John Lentell
13th January, 1969
Tuesday’s Piece
Would a coup d’etat after a negotiated independence have been more iniquitous than UDI before it? Less corrosive perhaps?
John Lentell
12th January, 1969
Monday’s Piece
“A good person once said, that where mystery begins, religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins, justice ends?”
(Edmund Burke, 1729 – 1797)
John Lentell
11th January, 1969
Sunday’s Piece
‘EGOSIT’ – a man who is always me-deep in conversation!
John Lentell
10th January, 1969
Saturday’s Piece
“ARGUS” – a fabulous creature with a hundred eyes some of which were always awake; killed by Hermes his eyes were transferred to the tail of the peacock; hence an ever-watchful person; a faithful guardian. (Myth).
(Collins New English Dictionary)
John Lentell
9th January, 1969
Friday’s Piece
“An experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite picturesque liar.”
(Mark Twain – Private History of a Campaign That Failed)
John Lentell
8th January, 1969
Thursday’s Piece
The Master of Balliol, A.L. Smith, described Lloyd George as having “religious fervour without moral perception”.
John Lentell
5th January, 1969
Wednesday’s Piece
“I do not understand,” said Lord Salisbury as they walked together one day, “what your real political position is.”
“Oh, I am a ‘Smithite’, Lord Salisbury,” replied Sir Henry reverentially – “a convinced ‘Smithite’ in politics.”
“But what is your object?”
“To do good, simply to do good,” was the reply.
(From the Life of Lord Randolph Churchill by Winston Churchill)
John Lentell
4th January, 1969
Tuesday’s Piece
“Socialism exalts the rule; Liberalism exalts the man….”
(Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965)
6th January, 1969
Monday’s Piece
“The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.”
(William Hazlitt, 1778 – 1830)
John Lentell
7th January, 1969
Sunday’s Piece
Patriotism can be invalidated by contrary material facts. How can a man’s views on the issues of our Rhodesia day be taken seriously when it is known that he has external assets sufficient to allay real anxiety?
John Lentell
3rd January, 1969
Saturday’s Piece
With all my faults I love thee still!
John Lentell
1st January, 1969
Friday’s Piece
“We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.”
(Wendell Phillips, 1811 – 1884)
John Lentell
31st December, 1968
Thursday’s Piece
“An Ambassador is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country; a news-writer is a man without virtue who lies at home for himself.”
(Reliquae Wottonianae – Sir Henry Wotton, 1568 – 1639)
John Lentell
30th December, 1968
