Ferdinand Mount
Ferdinand Mount
SirFerdinand Mount, 3rd Baronet, commonly known as Ferdinand Mount, is a British writer, novelist and columnist for The Sunday Times as well as a political commentator...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth2 July 1939
errors people stubborn
Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
letting-go giving people
What the world needs now is more Americans. The U.S. is the first nation on earth deliberately dedicated to letting people choose what they want and giving them a chance to get it.
thinking people attention
Why should people be expected to think about the meaning of life merely because they happen to be ill? That is just the time when there is no time to think about such things, because the body is so greedy for attention.
chance choose dedicated letting nation needs people
What the world needs now is more Americans. The U.S. is the first nation on earth deliberately dedicated to letting people choose what they want and giving them a chance to get it.
america people want
For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.
mean thinking people
I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.
argue cast combined defenders minute quo served status system taken
Defenders of the status quo will argue that this system has served us well over the centuries, that our parliamentary traditions have combined stability and flexibility and that we should not cast away in a minute what has taken generations to build.
history human insult position
We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.
hate silence church
I hate churches, all of them. But they used to know something about the importance of silence.
iraq white house
According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts.
party thinking government
A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.
constitution accepted symmetrical
No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.
men tangled delight
Francis Wheen takes a hugely enjoyable sweep through the tangled thickets of superstition and gullibility in which modern man likes to ramble. He takes particular delight in reminding us how easily fools are parted from their money and how many of them there are.
unique doubt comeback
We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.