“ It is the duty of Her Majesty's Government neither to flap nor to falter. ”
You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great big vulgar bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt.
~ Harold Macmillan
Tradition does not mean that the living are dead it means that the dead are living.
Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
