
Advertisement, N.Y. Herald Tribune (August 19, 1946)
Source: The Statesman (1836), Ch. 29. p. 219
Advertisement, N.Y. Herald Tribune (August 19, 1946)
“The greater the man, the less is he opinionative, he depends upon events and circumstances.”
Source: Political Aphorisms, Moral and Philosophical Thoughts (1848), p. 146
1930s, Address at the Dedication of the Memorial on the Gettysburg Battlefield (1938)
Context: It seldom helps to wonder how a statesman of one generation would surmount the crisis of another. A statesman deals with concrete difficulties — with things which must be done from day to day. Not often can he frame conscious patterns for the far off future. But the fullness of the stature of Lincoln's nature and the fundamental conflict which events forced upon his Presidency invite us ever to turn to him for help. For the issue which he restated here at Gettysburg seventy five years ago will be the continuing issue before this Nation so long as we cling to the purposes for which the Nation was founded — to preserve under the changing conditions of each generation a people's government for the people's good.
“Without a party a statesman is nothing. He sometimes forgets that awkward fact.”
Source: The Roman Revolution (1939), Ch. 4.
Source: Letter to Lord John Manners, referring to the tactics of Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel (17 December 1846), cited in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield (Vol. 2) (1913), p. 337-338.
Persecution and Tolerance, Hulsean Lectures, University of Cambridge (Winter 1893–94)
The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-century Philosophers (1932)
Source: The Bourgeois: Catholicism vs. Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century France (1927), p. 120