John Buchan
John Buchan
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, GCMG, GCVO, CH, PCwas a Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth26 August 1875
history guarantees study
That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.
conspiracy civilisation
Civilisation is a conspiracy.
ifs
It's a great life, if you don't weaken,
funny atheist mean
An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
fishing trout fisherman
The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.
humility pride humanity
Without humility there can be no humanity.
peace kind states
Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown.
organization quality merit
Any large-scale organization must lose some of the merits of its rudimentary beginnings. Quantity will have a coarsening effect on quality.
cowardice
To see what is right and not to do it is cowardice. It is never a question of who is right but what is right.
hands brain matter
Fortunately for mankind the brain in a life of action turns more to the matter in hand than to conjuring up the chances of the future.
funny running humor
[W]ithout humour you cannot run a sweetie-shop, let alone a nation.
dust romance firsts
But some love not the method of your first; Romance they count it, throw't away as dust; If I should meet with such, what should I say; Must I slight them as they slight me, or nay
wall live-life thinking
You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.
spiritual book barometer
The book trade is a spiritual barometer of a nations well-being.