Stories from Britain and elsewhere confirming the social and economic benefits of keeping politicians and their cronies out of the trade and business of ordinary people.
Sir Sidney Low blamed the recent catalogue of war and revolution
on out-of-touch diplomats who had tried to hammer the peoples of Europe into artificial unity.
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Give the Wall
ByA. G. Gardiner
Social niceties are essential for the smooth operation of
society, but neither boxing a man’s ears nor calling in the lawyers will bring them back.
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Peace with Dignity
ByWilliam Ewart Gladstone
Amid the Don Pacifico Affair, William Gladstone told Lord Palmerston that
pride in his own country did not excuse bossing others about like a global schoolmaster.
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The Gods of the Copybook Headings
ByRudyard Kipling
After the devastation of the Great War, calls rose for a new economic
and social system, and to put the wisdom of our forebears behind us.
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Measured Government
ByNapoleon Bonaparte
To Napoleon, the way that politicians in Paris had forced metric
measurements on the public was a lesson in bad government.
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My Heart’s Right There
ByA. G. Gardiner
The British Tommy’s fondness for ‘Tipperary’ exasperated some of his
countrymen, but ‘Alpha of the Plough’ thought it showed proper English spirit.
