Ferdinand Mount Quotes

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• Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the…
• What the world needs now is more Americans. The U.S. is the first nation on earth deliberately dedicated to letting people choose what they want…
• Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they…
• A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.
• According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin…
• All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding…
• For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind…
• For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism of governmental action;…
• I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.
• In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
• No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.
• Francis Wheen takes a hugely enjoyable sweep through the tangled thickets of superstition and gullibility in which modern man likes to ramble. He takes particular…
• We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.
• Something is happening to Britain and the British. Or has happened. We are said to be passing through a transition, or a turning point, or…
• We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.
• It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear…
• Why should people be expected to think about the meaning of life merely because they happen to be ill? That is just the time when…
• If life was what you made of it, then it could not be made for you.
• One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
• America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.

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