The Copybook

Short passages for reading, drawn from history, legend, poetry and fiction.

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© Jonathan Billinger, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC-BY-SA 2.0.

Man Was Not Made for the Government Edmund Burke

Good government is not about enforcing uniform order, but about maximising liberty among a particular people.

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© Yoga Balaji, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC-BY-SA 3.0.

The Bond of Liberty Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke told fellow MPs that the only way to unite the peoples of the Empire was for London to set them an enviable example.

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© Chris, Geograph. Licence: CC-BY-SA 2.0.

The ‘Empire’ of Free Trade Adam Smith

Free trade brings to smaller nations all the advantages of empire without the disadvantages.

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Anonymous, from Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.

Kindergarten Politics John Buchan

John Buchan’s dashing adventurer Sandy Arbuthnot didn’t think much of foreign policy after the Great War.

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© Ketounette, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC-BY-SA 4.0.

The Jealousy of Trade David Hume

David Hume encourages politicians to put away their distrust of other countries, and allow free trade to flourish.

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From ‘The Art of Piano’ (2001), available from Amazon (click the picture for more).

Benno Moiseiwitsch Clay Lane

One of the twentieth century’s greatest pianists, who put himself and his art at the service of his adopted country.

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