John Arbuthnot Fisher

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    “This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and no.”
    —Cardinal John Henry Newman (1801–1890)

    “All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.”
    —John Arbuthnot (1667–1735)

    “One ... aspect of the case for World War II is that while it was still a shooting affair it taught us survivors a great deal about daily living which is valuable to us now that it is, ethically at least, a question of cold weapons and hot words.”
    —M.F.K. Fisher (1908–1992)