91

Trusting the People

By William Ewart Gladstone

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

92

A Spirit of Self-Reliance

By William Ewart Gladstone

William Gladstone urges Government not to take away from people the things they have a right to do for themselves.

93

Jerusalem in England

By William Blake

Blake throws heart and soul into an impassioned expression of his dream of a new England.

94

A Tale Worth All His Fortune

By William Cobbett

William Cobbett recalls his first taste of classic literature, for which he had to go without his supper.

95

A Victim of His Success

By Richard Burdon Haldane

Economist Adam Smith so changed the conversation in Britain that most people take his groundbreaking insights for granted.

96

Frank Foley

By Clay Lane

A mild-mannered clerk in the British Embassy’s passport office in Berlin, just before the outbreak of war in 1939, was not all he seemed to be.