Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes
Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.
Stanhope, Philip Dormer. Letters to His Son. J. Dodsley, 1774.
Both Hitler and Stalin were gross egomaniacs who each thought that they had gotten the better of things. The result was that 22 million Russians were killed and the industrial base if Russia Was destroyed. On the German side, the German military was virtually destroyed, many civilians were killed, the nation reduced to rubble and starvation, German leaders were killed, jailed or committed suicide including Hitler, and the country was occupied for years. Neither leader appeared very smart if one judges by the results.
1st Earl of Beaconsfield
Austin was negotiating as a person loyal to Mexico for the territory of Texas. He spent much time in Mexico City and even renounced his U. S. citizenship and applied for Mexican citizenship. But his negotiations were always forcefully for Texas which was viewed very differently by the many Mexican political factions. In 1834 he was jailed for sedition caught between diverse Mexican interests and his vision of Texas.
Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, was a British statesman, and a man of letters, and wit. Educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, he subsequently embarked on the Grand Tour of the Continent, to complete his education as a nobleman, by exposure to the cultural legacies of Classical antiquity and the Renaissance, and to become acquainted with his aristocratic counterparts and the polite society of Continental Europe.
