Randolph Churchill Quotes
There is nothing democratic about the Whig. He is essentially a cold and selfish aristocrat who believes that the British Empire was created by Providence and exists for no other purpose than to keep in power a few Whig families.
Randolph Churchill, 1849-1895, British Chancellor of the Exchequer (Conservative), Secretary for India, Conservative Party Leader, Father of Winston Churchill, Speech attacking the Whigs
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The Russian autocrat found it hard to believe that peasants and merchants could have any rights at all as they did in England. He faulted the female ruler, the great Queen Elizabeth I. By modern standards Elizabeth had awesome power and the English People very little, but Elizabeth was relatively restrained in her use of power and paid attention to the effect of affairs of state had on the people." Ivan the Terrible
Although Rand is one of the Conservatives' favorite writers and philosophers, only a minority would agree with her unfeeling and extreme form of a capitalistic society.
Cochrane became the Admiral in Chief of 2 Different South American Nations—Peru and Brazil—fighting for their independence. Incredibly enough, he was able to form idealistic freedom fighters with no naval experience into navies which defeated both the Spanish and Portuguese fleets at a time when those countries had world class navies. His achievements on behalf of the South Americans are often regarded as the most remarkable naval achievements in history.
At the time the Puerto Rican right wing distrusted the United States as too accommodating to labor, and the leftists saw American progressivism as a way of building an alliance between Puerto Rican and American labor movements.
The Queen was visiting South Africa and an Afrikaner mayor buttonholed her to complain about all the indignities that his people had subjected to by the English.
Garvey created titles and made appointments to the joy of many and the embaraqssment of others.
Randolph Frederick Edward Spencer-Churchill MBE was a British journalist, writer, soldier and politician. He served as Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Preston from 1940 to 1945.
