Anthony Ragan

“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

“After Watergate, few would have predicted today’s dynamic in which some journalists view their job not as questioning the powers that be, but undermining those who report on the powers that be.”
― Sharyl Attkisson, Stonewalled: One Reporter's Fight for Truth in Obama's Washington

“The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail, its roof may shake, the wind may blow through it, the storm may enter, the rain may enter; but the King of England cannot enter; all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement! —WILLIAM PITT THE ELDER, 1763”
― Daniel Hannan, Inventing Freedom: How the English-Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World

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