Hugh Kingsmill Quotes
The public mind is a cloudy region where only the simplest shapes are discerned with any accuracy.
Hugh Kingsmill Lunn, 1889–1949, Hugh Kingsmill, English Biographer and Literary Critic, The Progress of a Biographer, 1949
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See Otis Singletary and Eddie Bernice Johnson for a similar view.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
Cooke was a bitter foe of monarchy in general and not just of Charles I. His argument here is that when the people support a king, they are breaking the Biblical commandment of not worshipping idols. Thus God is against monarchy. See {634004} for another religious attack on monarchy.
The speech was never actually delivered, but instead the Bishop published it. It received wide distribution including in America where it was published by the Maryland Gazette on September 29, 1774.
The pressure on the military to produce positive results has existed in almost every war America has fought. In combat Patton may have been the most aggressive American general who produced very quick results. Yet he too felt the pressure.
See Eddie Bernice Johnson and Otis Singletary for related views
This quotation is almost always given as if it were Alcuin who advocated listening to the people, when actually his view was just the opposite. See William Tecumseh Sherman for a more modern expression of the same view. Also, Walter Reynolds {32317} for an opposite view, but using a similar phrase. Note that since he was referring to what "the people" say, the quote must have been in common usage in the 9th century. For the earliest known use of the statement in Western civilization, see Hesiod {603399}.
See {595376} for a related view.
1st Earl of Beaconsfield. British public opinion was solidly supporting war against Turkey because of their atrocities in Bulgaria. However Disraeli’s objective was limiting Tsarist Russia and wanted Turkey as an ally. The government resisted public opinion and the opposition and pulled off a stunning foreign policy triumph over the Russians.
Hugh Kingsmill Lunn, who dropped his last name for professional purposes, was a versatile British writer and journalist. Writers Arnold Lunn and Brian Lunn were his brothers.
