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On the attitude of Capital toward Labor after a decade of wage stagnation, ca. 1910: "As for the workers, he did not expect them to see eye to eye with him, and the only method that suggested itself was to give them a black eye the moment they showed any disposition to see at all."
— Oct 22, 2014 11:19PM
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Why did Churchill decide to step into a hornet's nest by giving a pro-Irish-independence speech in rabidly pro-unionist Belfast? '[T]he scent of battle was in the air; the newspaper headlines beckoned; there were stupid minds all waiting to be outraged. It was impossible for him to resist such congregated opportunity.'
— Oct 07, 2014 08:11PM
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On the House of Lords: 'In normal circumstances the upper chamber was an empty place; it was only in crises such as this that it was filled with a horde of hereditary nobodies, possessed with a gentlemanly anxiety to do the wrong thing.'
— Oct 01, 2014 10:47PM
