“There are many isms today to perplex us – Nazism, communism, fascism and so forth – but most of them will cancel each other out. There is only one ism which kills the soul and that is pessimism.”
(Lord Tweedsmuir, 1875 – 1940)
John Lentell
9th April, 1970
“The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.”
(William Hazlitt, 1778 – 1830)
John Lentell
8th April, 1970
“What is wanted…..is not that the Government should get unanimous reports. We want to promote free discussion and not to drive differences of opinion underground.”
(Lord ‘Boom’ Trenchard, 1873 – 1956)
John Lentell
6th April, 1970
“…..And I have felt
A presence that disturbs me with the joy
Of elevated thoughts….”
(From Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth, 1770 – 1850)
John Lentell
31st March, 1970
“Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; ….parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed, but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of (Bristol), but he is a member of parliament.”
(Edmund Burke, 1729 – 1797)
John Lentell
30th March, 1970
“No coward soul is mine,
No trembler in the world’s storm-troubled sphere:
I see heaven’s glories shine,
And faith shines equal, arming me from fear.”
(No Coward Soul is Mine by Emily Brontë, 1818 – 1848)
John Lentell
29th March, 1970
“Not only is there one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way seeing them, and it is, seeing the whole of them.”
(John Ruskin, 1819 – 1900)
John Lentell
27th March, 1970
“I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which leads to a dark gulf. It is a fine broad stairway at the beginning, but after a bit the carpet runs ends. A little farther on there are only flagstones, and a little farther still these break beneath your feet.”
(Sir Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965)
John Lentell
26th March, 1970
“We must recollect….what it is we have at stake, what it is we have to contend for. It is for our property, it is for our liberty, it is for our independence, nay, for our existence as a nation; it is for our character, it is for our very name as (Englishmen), it is for everything dear and valuable to man on this side of the grave.”
(William Pitt, 1708 – 1778)
John Lentell
25th March, 1976
To change my opinion today, does not mean to say that I know less today than I knew yesterday.
John Lentell
24th March, 1970
“I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man who lives in it so that his place will be proud of him.”
(Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865)
John Lentell
23rd March, 1970
“Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.”
(John Ruskin, 1819 – 1900)
John Lentell
22nd March, 1970
“A speaker talked loud and long, then asked brightly, ‘Are there any questions?’. A hand went up. The speaker nodded.
‘What time is it?’ the listener inquired.”
John Lentell
21st march, 1970
“Political difference is wholesome. It is political indifference that hurts.”
John Lentell
20th March, 1970
“No Government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.”
(Benjamin Disraeli, 1804 – 1881)
John Lentell
19th March, 1970
“We’ve a war, an’ a debt, an’ a flag; an’ ef this Ain’t to be inderpendunt, why, wut on airth is?”
(James Lowell, 1819 – 1891)
John Lentell
18th March, 1970
Somebody said that it couldn’t be done,
But he with a chuckle replied
That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one
Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried.
So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin
On his face. If he worried he hid it.
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn’t be done, and he did it.
Somebody scoffed: “Oh, you’ll never do that;
At least no one ever has done it”;
But he took off his coat and he took off his hat,
And the first thing we knew he’d begun it.
With a lift of his chin and a bit of a grin,
Without any doubting or quiddit,
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn’t be done, and he did it.
There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done,
There are thousands to prophesy failure;
There are thousands to point out to you, one by one,
The dangers that wait to assail you.
But just buckle in with a bit of a grin,
Just take off your coat and go to it;
Just start to sing as you tackle the thing
That “cannot be done,” and you’ll do it.
(Edgar A. Guest, 1881 – 1959)
John Lentell
17th March, 1970
“Man is man’s A.B.C. There is none that can Read God aright, unless he first spell Man.”
(Francis Quarles, 1592 – 1644)
John Lentell
16th march, 1970
When asked which way he preferred to lay his head on the block, Sir Walter Raleigh said:
“So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lies”.
(Sir Walter Raleigh by W. Stebbing)
John Lentell
15th March, 1970
“Political war: one in which everyone shoots from the hip!”
(Raymond Moley, 1886 – 1975)
John Lentell
14th march, 1970
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