Hilaire Belloc
Hilaire Belloc
Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Bellocwas an Anglo-French writer and historian. He was one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century. He was known as a writer, orator, poet, sailor, satirist, man of letters, soldier and political activist. His Catholic faith had a strong impact on his works. He was President of the Oxford Union and later MP for Salford from 1906 to 1910. He was a noted disputant, with a number of long-running feuds, but...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth27 July 1870
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long-ago restoration politics
It is therefore our business to restore economic freedom through the restoration of the only institution under which it flourishes, which institution is Property. The problem before us is, how to restore Property so that it shall be, as it was not so long ago, a general institution.
citizens politics economic
But if we are to retain freedom, then we can only do so by keeping the determining mass of the citizens the possessors of property with personal control over it, as individuals or as families. For property is the necessary condition of economic freedom in the full sense of that term. He that has not property is under economic servitude to him who has property, whether the possessor of it be another individual or the State.
grace courtesy grace-of-god
The grace of God is courtesy.
book writing dull
I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.
song singing second-best
It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.
lunch tea breakfast
Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires.
love money tired
I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.
population dull suggestions
It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless and unreasoned, will be obeyed if it be sufficiently repeated.
latin soul tea
Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.
character our-society ownership
Ownership is not a general feature of our society, determining its character. On the contrary, dependence on a precarious wage at the will of others is the general feature of our society.
loneliness being-alone men
When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
fighting order desire
We may not say to the poor: "You have a right to fight the rich merely because they are rich and in order to make yourselves less poor." We may say: "You have a right to fight to prevent the conditions of your life becoming inhuman," but we may not say, "You have a right to fight merely because you desire to have more and your opponent to have less."
ridiculous politician acquaintance
Here richly, with ridiculous display, The Politician's corpse was laid away. While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.
nurse findings
[A]lways keep a-hold of Nurse For fear of finding something worse