Short passages for reading, drawn from history, legend, poetry and fiction.
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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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Free trade brings to smaller nations all the advantages of empire without the disadvantages.
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John Buchan’s dashing adventurer Sandy Arbuthnot didn’t think much of foreign policy after the Great War.
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David Hume encourages politicians to put away their distrust of other countries, and allow free trade to flourish.
From ‘The Art of Piano’ (2001), available from Amazon (click the picture for more).
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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William Pitt the Elder berates Parliament for treating the public like know-nothings.