Anthony Ragan

“Most of the time, however, the cruelty of Soviet camp guards was unthinking, stupid, lazy cruelty, of the sort that might be shown to cattle or sheep.”
― Anne Applebaum, Gulag: A History

“Conservatism starts from a sentiment that all mature people can readily share: the sentiment that good things are easily destroyed, but not easily created.”
― Roger Scruton, How to be a Conservative

“The Times correspondent who reported on the battle commented: ‘The estimation of Austrian losses is somewhat difficult as many of the fallen were not discovered until the penetrating odour of decomposed humanity disclosed the presence of bodies in wood or unharvested field.”
― Martin Gilbert, The First World War: A Complete History

“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”
― Margaret Thatcher