Dennis Skinner said Queen’s Speech was coalition’s last stand - and it will be painful http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/dennis-skinner-said-queens-speech-3645462 Daily Mirror, 4 June 2014 <br class="br">2010s
“Coalition if necessary, but not necessarily a coalition.”
Michael Ignatieff (1947) professor at Harvard Kennedy School and former Canadian politician
In response to his position on the Coalition Accord signed between the Liberal Party, New Democratic Party and Bloc Quebecois parties, by his predecessor Stephane Dion.
From "Living Fearlessly in a Fearless World" Ignatieff Commencement Address to Whitman College (USA), 2004
“The organization as a coalition of diverse stakeholders is a coalition with multiple goals.”
Gareth Morgan book Images of Organization
Source: Images of Organization (1986), p. 154
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Source: Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1852/dec/16/ways-and-means-financial-statement in the House of Commons (16 December 1852)
“England does not love coalitions.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1852/dec/16/ways-and-means-financial-statement in the House of Commons (16 December 1852). <br class="br">1850s <br class="br">Context: Yes! I know what I have to face. I have to face a coalition. The combination may be successful. A coalition has before this been successful. But coalitions, although successful, have always found this, that their triumph has been brief. This too I know, that England does not love coalitions.
“Conspiracy is just another name for coalition.”
Robert Anton Wilson (1932–2007) American author and polymath
The Historical Illuminatus as spoken by Luigi Duccio
Robert Fisk (1946) English writer and journalist
Anglo-American Lies Exposed http://www.robert-fisk.com/articles191.htm, March 24, 2003 <br class="br">2003
Roy Jenkins (1920–2003) British politician, historian and writer
The Richard Dimbleby Lecture ('Home Thoughts from Abroad') (22 November 1979), quoted in The Times (23 November 1979), p. 5
1970s
“The list of the states that have joined the coalition against terror”
Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist
Quotes 2000s, 2001, The New War Against Terror, 2001
Context: The list of the states that have joined the coalition against terror is quite impressive. They have a characteristic in common. They are certainly among the leading terrorist states in the world. And they happen to be led by the world champion.
“If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth.”
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
1960s, A Time for Choosing (1964)
Context: If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth. And this idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except to sovereign people, is still the newest and most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. This is the issue of this election. Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.
“The vulnerable points of Liberty now making her last stand on earth.”
Libertas ultima mundi
quo steterit ferienda loco.
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus book Pharsalia
Book VII, line 580 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
