This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'; that it was the first government which made a criticism of administration as much a part of the polity as administration itself. This critical opposition is the consequence of cabinet government.
It was in the recognition that there is in each man a final essence, that is to say an immortal soul, which only God can judge, that a limit was set upon the dominion of men over men.
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The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority.
Virginia Woolf, nee Stephen, fully Adeline Virginia Woolf
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Few things are impossible in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.