
“Orderly discipline and morale within an army was the responsibility of the Division Commander.”
Quoted in "Nanking: Anatomy of an Atrocity" - Page 232 - by Masahiro Yamamoto - History - 2000.
Speech to Conservative Women's Conference (24 May 1978) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/103696.
Leader of the Opposition
Context: All over the country, particularly in our large urban areas, old people do go in fear and trembling as never before during either the lifetime of their parents or grandparents... we have been too ready to listen to those who believe that rising crime is due to things like higher unemployment, poor housing, poor pay. While it has always been part of Conservative policy to raise the standard of living of our people we must recognise that in the 1930's there were far more people out of work, far less prosperity and worse housing—but much less crime than now... Rising crime is not due to “society”—but to the steady undermining of personal responsibility and self-discipline—all things which are taught within the family.
“Orderly discipline and morale within an army was the responsibility of the Division Commander.”
Quoted in "Nanking: Anatomy of an Atrocity" - Page 232 - by Masahiro Yamamoto - History - 2000.
Source: Writings, The Institutes of Biblical Law (1973), p. 203
“A self-taught painter is one taught by a very ignorant person.”
Quoted in The Quarterly Review vol. 119 (1866), p. 292.
posthumous, undated
Source: Personal Destinies: A Philosophy of Ethical Individualism (1976), p. 16
Nicholas Wood, Jill Sherman, Sheila Gunn, "Major gives seal of approval to Tories' right-wing agenda", The Times, 9 October 1993
Conservative Party conference speech, 8 October 1993. The phrase was associated with personal morality and backfired when a succession of senior Conservatives fell to scandals that winter.
1990s, 1993
Gayle King XM satellite radio program (October 23, 2006)
2007, 2008