...forget — his speech on Conciliation with America, particularly the magnificent passage beginning, ' Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the ' truest...great empire and little ' minds go ill together.' You have echoed back the words in which, in his letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol on the hateful American...

...forget — his speech on Conciliation with America, particularly the magnificent passage beginning, ' Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom,...a great empire and little minds go ill together.' You have echoed back the words in which, in his letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol on the hateful American...

...and who, therefore, far from being qualified to be directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine. But to men truly...existence, are in truth every thing, and all in all. 7. Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go...

...and who, therefore, far from being qualified to be directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine. But to men truly...mentioned have no substantial existence, are in truth everything and all in all. Magnanimity in politicians is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and a great...

...who, therefore, far from being qualified to be directors of the great movement of empire, are not flt to turn a wheel in the machine. But to men truly initiated...mentioned, have no substantial existence, are in truth everything, and all in all. Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire...

...table and screaming with fear of a mouse. I prefer Edmund Burke to any panic speeches from Washington: "Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest...a great empire and little minds go ill together." Rule by Terror July 1983 President Reagan once described the Vietnam catastrophe as "that noble cause."...

...trade unionist He who gives food to the people will win. Lech Walesa (b. 1943) Polish Solidarity leader Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom;...and a great empire and little minds go ill together. Edmund Burke (1729-1797) Irish philosopher, statesman Politics is the diversion of trivial men who,...

...acknowledged that his plan would sound 'wild and chimerical to ... vulgar and mechanical politicans. . . . Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom,...a great empire and little minds go ill together.' Burke's vision of an empire in which the colonies were freely associated with Britain found little...

...political contexts. There will be those who, like the current Ministry, neglect the truths of history. But "to men truly initiated and rightly taught, these...mentioned have no substantial existence, are in truth everything and all in all." The movement of Burke's oration has been conducted along several levels...

...and who therefore, far from being qualified to be directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine. But to men truly initiated and righdy taught, these ruling and master principles, which, in the opinion of such men as I have mentioned,...