British Statesmen

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    You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let’s not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.
    Paddy Chayefsky (1923–1981)

    Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)