8 thoughts on “An old fashioned view?”

  1. Tim, I can remember being taken as a small child to see Anthony Eden when he arrived back in Leamington Spa after he had been made prime minister (I stood on the windowsill of Barclays Bank opposite the town hall. There was just a sea of people all around me. I can’t imagine a similar thing happening these days!

  2. “Calvin: Do you believe in the devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of man?

    Hobbes: I’m not sure that man needs the help”

  3. “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.” Lord Acton (1834–1902)the historian and moralist, expressed this opinion in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton in 1887

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