Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced; it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself.
Carlyle, Thomas. "Characteristics." Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, vol. 3, James Munroe and Co., 1839, p. 9.
He works were banned and he was banished by both the North Vietnamese and the South Vietnamese during the Vietnam War where he tried to be a mediator and was present at the Paris Peace Talks. As late as 2007 he was still not allowed into Vietnam.
The Vietnam War was raging and the country was polarized by it. The real issue of the time, as we were in the war, was whether we could better obtain peace by winning victories in the field causing the enemy to want to negotiate or to withdraw and produce peace unilaterally. In the end we tried a little of both reflecting the division in the nation. We succeeded at neither strategy and the polarization continued for many decades.
Retrospectively describing the Constitutional convention:
Previously the Federalist Party had virtually self-destructed in ideological bickering and partisanship, even throughout the War of 1812.
This idea came from Dutch Philosopher Benedict Spinoza. See his quotation from 1677.
She had gone to Europe where the 2nd World War was raging.
On the need to build up Jewish military strength in anticipation of the impending Arab-Israel crisis
Thomas Carlyle was a Scottish historian, satirical writer, essayist, translator, philosopher, mathematician, and teacher. In his book On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History (1841), he argued that the actions of the "Great Man" play a key role in history, claiming that "the history of the world is but the biography of great men". Other major works include The French Revolution: A History, 3 vols (1837) and The History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, 6 vols (1858–65).
