Nathan Peretic

Libel

2011-05-29T00:00:00+00:00

What purpose is served by saying that men like Maxton are in Fascist pay? Only the purpose of making serious discussion impossible. It as as though in the middle of a chess tournament one competitor should suddenly begin screaming that the other is guilty of arson or bigamy. The point that is really at issue remains untouched. Libel settles nothing.
George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia

Victory

2011-05-20T00:00:00+00:00

We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I can say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
Winston Churchill, First Speech as Prime Minister to the House of Commons. May 13, 1940.

Independence

2011-05-14T00:00:00+00:00

No strongly centralized political organization feels altogether happy with individuals who combine independence, a free imagination, and a formidable strength of character with stubborn faith and a single-minded, unaltering view of the public and private good.
Isaiah Berlin, "Mr. Churchill."