A Study Of Disease-of Pestilences Methodically Prepared

There Is No Worse Mistake In Public Leadership Than To Hold Out False Hopes Soon To Be Swept Away. The British People Can Face Peril Or Misfortune With Fortitude And Buoyancy, But They Bitterly Resent Being Deceived Or Finding That Those Responsible For Their Affairs Are Themselves Dwelling In A Fool's Paradise.

The World Looks With Some Awe Upon A Man Who Appears Unconcernedly Indifferent To Home, Money, Comfort, Rank, Or Even Power And Fame. The World Feels Not Without A Certain Apprehension, That Here Is Someone Outside Its Jurisdiction; Someone Before Whom Its Allurements May Be Spread In Vain; Some One Strangely Enfranchised, Untamed, Untrammelled By Convention, Moving Independent Of The Ordinary Currents Of Human Action.

There Is Nothing Wrong With Change, If It Is In The Right Direction.

Time Is One Thing That Can Never Be Retrieved. One May Lose And Regain Friends. One May Lose And Regain Money. Opportunity, Once Spurned, May Come Again. But The Hours That Are Lost In Idleness Can Never Be Brought Back To Be Used In Gainful Pursuits

The Trade Unions Are A Long-established And Essential Part Of Our National Life. We Take Our Stand By These Pillars Of Our British Society As It Has Gradually Developed And Evolved Itself, Of The Right Of Individual Labouring Men To Adjust Their Wages And Conditions By Collective Bargaining, Including The Right To Strike.