D. H. Lawrence Quotes
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
D. H. Lawrence, 1885-1930, British Author, Quoted in Seldes, The Great Quotations, Citadel, 1983
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Elected at 24 as the youngest British Prime Minister. This is perhaps the most elegant statement on the problem in English history, but it was not the first. Oliver Cromwell had preceded him. See Oliver Cromwell’s succinct version earlier: {585597}.
In the Civil War a drafted conscript could pay money instead of serving in the army. Many rich and middle class men did so leaving a higher proportion of the poor to be drafted. The song is sometimes misattributed to William Cullen Bryant.
St. Domingue was the name of Haiti which had had the only successful national slave revolt, but it was incredibly bloody with many casualties.
Marion was the initiator of Guerilla Warfare and he and his men traveled lightly spending much time in the South Carolina swamps. They had few supplies and when chased by the British could not stop to hunt. The British called him the “Swamp Fox”. The American colonists at this point still thought of the British as “their countrymen.”
This is one of the more passionate and colorful descriptions of Conservatives in the political literature. The conservative party were called Orangists as they were supporters of the monarchy of William V, Prince of Orange. As in modern times the conservatives included the upper classes, business people, religious advocates. The political conservatives were passionate, respected established authority, and in general, reactionary. The tended even then to flip-flopping as the conservatives had several factions--business conservatives, religious conservatives, monarchial conservatives, authoritarian conservatives and others. Depending on which faction was most powerful at the time, conservatives might advocate one position and change later when another faction was in control. Valckenaer also had some choice words to reflect his disdain for them. It is noteworthy that this description could describe political conservatives in almost any time period, in any culture. For example, it might have been a liberal writing about the Tea Party Republicans in 2014.
A slight variant of this quotation appears in the base of the Statue of Liberty.
David Herbert Lawrence was an English writer and poet. His collected works represent, among other things, an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation. Lawrence's writing explores issues such as sexuality, emotional health, vitality, spontaneity, and instinct. His works include Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love, and Lady Chatterley's Lover.
