January 8, 2025

Do not believe those who say they have voluntarily relinquished power and position for love of peace and quiet.

[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.