Posts in The Copybook tagged ‘Liberty and Prosperity’
© Colin Davis (CSIRO), Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0.
Samuel Sidney, a Victorian expert on Australian matters, explained how cutting tax and regulation on Britain’s global trade made everyone better off.
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Painted by Francis Cotes (1726-1770). Licence: Public domain.
A sympathetic understanding of the trials of other people is essential for getting along.
From the Imperial War Museums collection, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain
The closure of slave plantations following the Abolition of Slavery Act in 1833 had a curious side-effect.
© Colin Pyle, Geograph. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wilfrid Israel used his Berlin department store as cover for smuggling thousands of Jewish children to safety in Britain.
© Jeff Buck, Geograph. Licence: CC-BY-SA 2.0.
If Britain is a chessboard, then politicians should remember that the ‘pieces’ are alive, and they generally play a better game.
© Jorge Royan, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC-BY-SA 3.0.
No one is more dangerous than the man who thinks that it is his destiny to direct things for the common good.