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Guy de Maupassant reflects on the way that a statesman’s place in history has so often been defined not by deeds or character but by his one-liners.
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Free trade brings to smaller nations all the advantages of empire without the disadvantages.
Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley says that the pinnacle of political achievement is the government not of others, but of ourselves.
George Santayana had the chance to observe our national character at the height of Empire.
The fate of the British army hung by a thread in May 1940, but ships large and small, military and civilian, came to the rescue.
American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson saw the demand for hard evidence as a peculiarly English trait.