August 18, 2025

[On hearing Lady Mountbatten’s anti-monarchical views] How easy it seems for a semi-royal millionnairess, who has exhausted all the pleasures of money and position, to turn almost Communist!

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right.