Horace Walpole Quotes
Our bells are worn threadbare with ringing for victories
Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford. Edited by Peter Cunningham, vol. 3, Richard Bentley, 1857, p. 259.
There were some anti-war forces in Germany in World War I.
The reason this is an important quotation is that since the end of WWII, most Americans have used the term “socialism” rather loosely. President Obama for example is often referred to as a socialist by his political enemies. Conservatives refer to Norway, Sweden and Denmark and other European nations as socialist states. But none of them would ever meet the definition of a socialist state of the major socialist state in history. After WWII, the Russians intimidated many of the Eastern European with force of arms and there were some other socialist states for a while but the all abandoned Soviet style Russian socialism, Ironically, the only state that the old Russian Communists would recognize in 2011 was Cuba. However, there are many who call themselves socialists who would never agree that the Soviet Union was remotely a socialist state—they see it as a Fascist dictatorship.
There were a number of world leaders who were not happy about the German Reunification. See Henry Kissinger {610355} for another.
1st Duke of Wellington
Describing the conquest and destruction of Jerusalem and the Second Temple in 70 AD.
Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, also known as Horace Walpole, was an English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician.
