1st Earl of St Germans

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    The talent of insinuation is more useful than that of persuasion, as everybody is open to insinuation, but scarce any to persuasion.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    I think that both here and in England there are two schools of thought—those who would be altruistic in regard to the Germans, hoping that by loving kindness to make them Christian again—and those who would adopt a much tougher attitude. Most decidedly I belong to the latter school, for though I am not blood-thirsty, I want the Germans to know that this time at least they have definitely lost the war.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)