No Battle Is Worth Fighting Except The

I Do Not Know If The Doctrine That The Nation-state Arose In The 19th Century Was Still Being Taught:;... But It Is Erroneous. The Nation-state Reaches Back Far Into The Origins Of Europe Itself And Perhaps Beyond. If Europe Was Not Always A Europe Of Nations, It Was Always A Europe In Which Nations Existed, And Were Taken For Granted, As A Basic Form Of The State.

If I Cannot Understand My Friend's Silence, I Will Never Get To Understand His Words.

It Is One Of History's Most Mocking Ironies That The German Customs Union, Which Set Out To Dominate Europe And Conquer Britain In The Form Of Bismarckian Or Hitlerian Military Force, Has At Last Vanquished The Victor By Drawing Britain Into A Zollverein Which Comprises Western Europe And Aspires To Comprise The Mediterranean As Well. If The Ghosts Of The Hohenzollerns Come Back To Haunt This Planet, They Must Find A Lot To Laugh At.

We Must Be Mad, Literally Mad, As A Nation To Be Permitting The Annual Inflow Of Some 50,000 Dependents, Who Are For The Most Part The Material Of The Future Growth Of The Immigrant-descended Population. It Is Like Watching A Nation Busily Engaged In Heaping Up Its Own Funeral Pyre.

If In The Words Which The Secretary Of State Has Just Used, The Use Of A Nuclear Weapon Is To Be Avoided 'at All Costs'. What Is The Point Of Having One?