John Boyd Orr Quotes
Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.
Orr, John Boyd. "Science and Peace." Les Prix Nobel en 1949, Nobel Foundation, 1950.
Paine was describing the conquest of England in 1066 by William the Conqueror.
The American Revolution was being debated, and few saw the long range implications of the independence of America. Fox was one who did.
The specific context of the quotation was the Navaho Indians enmity towards Kit Carson which extends to the present.
The Daneish had conquered Northern England. The entire history—manuscript shown in the graphic—was written in rhymed couplets.
When the British first colonized South Africa, the area they used was not inhabited or very sparcely so. However, some Black tribes (including the Zulus) were moving from the north and themselves were colonizing or annexing the sparcely populated areas to their kingdom. The British were most interested in Trading so did not have large land asperations. The Dutch white Boer Africanners, in contrast, wanted to farm the lands and use the range for their cattle. They wanted the land. The English policy was that there would be friendly relations with the Black tribes surrounding their Cape Colony and no one should take their land. However the Boers started attacking the Black areas and seizing their farms and villages. At first, the English assumed that the Blacks would easily be able to ward off the invasion as the Afrikanners had no professional troops like the British. However, the neighboring native tribes were not very warlike or good fighters. They were being overrun by the Zulus coming from the North and the Boers from the South. The British Government had a real problem in that they would have to have British soldiers fight the white Afrikanners if they wanted to stop the illegal white invasions. This was the root of the Boer War where the British would be fully at war with the Africanners.
John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, CH, DSO, MC, FRS, FRSE, styled Sir John Boyd Orr from 1935 to 1949, was a Scottish teacher, medical doctor, biologist, nutritional physiologist, politician, businessman and farmer who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his scientific research into nutrition and his work as the first Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
