A loving parent doesn’t want her son to be a success; she wants him to be a fine human being.

Victorian economist Alfred Marshall argued that it was no accident that free societies and coal-powered industries are found together.

At the Berlin Congress of Powers in 1878, the draft of the Prime Minister’s keynote speech had his anxious aides scuttling about like ants.

The Foreign Office had a long tradition of regarding a strong Russian Empire as ‘not in the British interest,’ but John Bright saw only mutual benefit in it.

William Gladstone complained that some politicians talk about freedom but don’t trust the people enough to let them have any.

When Lord Salisbury asked the Russian Minister of the Interior how many agents the Tsar had in India, the reply came as a shock.