Essex/politics

Famous quotes containing the words essex and/or politics:

“Well, it seems to me a scientist has need for both vision and confidence.”
—Harry Essex (b. 1910)

“The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of Poland or the Manchester Fenians; and they relaxed their tension by voluptuous reading in Swinburne.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)