And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear: A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East. – Rudyard Kipling
Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield. – William Morris Hughes
One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, 1943, translated from French b