John Ruskin Quotes
No nation can last which has made a mob of itself, however generous at heart.
Ruskin, John. Sesame and Lilies: Two Lectures Delivered at Manchester in 1864. Smith, Elder & Co., 1865.
Even in 1837 there were already riots over slavery and race in a number of American Cities. What is particularly interesting about this quotation is Lincoln bemoaning the violance and contrasting the then present with the past when law and order prevailed. Even our greatest President has had a romantic view of the past with respect to law and order, as many Americans have done in almost every American era.
1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor. England had occupied Iraq, expecting to be welcomed by the natives, but like the George W. Bush ill-fated invasion almost a century afterward calls for withdrawal were met by the same rationale for maintaining the occupation. The English policy makers like the Bush administration were expecting a more welcoming reaction. See {585250}.
Mashall was then Solicitor General of the United States.
Reformers attempted to serve a New York Supreme Court writ on McKane to prohibit him from continuing corrupt election fraud practices.
John Ruskin was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, as well as an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, philosopher, prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy.
