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Bookplate inserted; includes loose business card of Sir Archie Michaelis inscribed in blue ink: “With every good wish for your birthday & the season”. Numerous pages earmarked / quotes highlighted in pencil throughout text including: [p. 10] earmarked; [p. 13] earmarked; [p. 24] earmarked; [p. 43] earmarked (includes quote by De Tocqueville on the “spirit and the morals of the people” under government); [p. 180] earmarked (beginning of Chapter “Civilization and Freedom”); [p. 182] earmarked and Harold Macmillan quote highlighted: “The civilized world, at least the Western world, still draws its inspiration from two sources, the classical and the Biblical. . . . It is not clear that there is anything particular of much value, except on the scientific and technical side, which is being thought or said today which was not contained either in classical or Biblical literature two thousand years ago or more.”; [p. 189] John Stuart Mill quote underlined: “The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it”; [p. 193] earmarked and Edmund Burke quote underlined: “Men are qualified for civil liberty, in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites; in proportion as their love of justice is above their rapacity; in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption.”; [p. 196] Norman Angell quote underlined: “Such right as the right to free speech must be paid for by such obligations as the duty to listen; a duty so seldom emphasised. Without it the right to speak has little social value.”; [p. 198] Mark Bonham Carter quote highlighted: “Public opinion is the last refuge of a politician without any opinion of his own”; [p. 200] earmarked and Winwood Reade quote highlighted: “The government of England possesses at the same time the freedom which is only found in a republic, and the loyalty which is only felt towards a monarch”; [p. 202] William Esslinger quote highlighted: “In the development of fatal extremisms to the right and left the “treason of the intellectuals” (“la trahison des clercs” in Julien Benda’s phrase) has played a fatal role.”; [p. 204] Thomas Delane quote underlined: “As long as we use the information we obtain and the influence we possess for the honour and welfare of the country, the people of England will do us justice”; [p. 107] Westbrook Pegler quote highlighted: “Of all the fantastic fog-shapes that have risen off the swamp of confusion since the big war, the most futile and at the same time the most pretentious, is the deep-thinking, hair-trigger columnist or commentator who knows all the answers just off-hand and can settle great affairs with absolute finality three days or even six days a week.”; [p. 217] earmarked and Woodrow Wilson quote highlighted: “It is not learning but the spirit of service that will give a college a place in the public annals of the nation. It is indispensable if it is to do its right service, that the air of affairs should be admitted to all classrooms . . . the air of the world’s transactions, the consciousness of the solidarity of the race, the sense of the duty of man toward man . . . the promise and the hope that shine in the face of all knowledge.”; [p. 221] earmarked and Eisenhower quote highlighted: “An “intellectual” is a man who takes more words than he needs to say more than he knows.”; [p. 227] earmarked (includes Felix Frankfurter quote on tyranny); [p. 239] Winston Churchill quote highlighted: “The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes in life they make five or minus three; and sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in disorder and the pedagogue with a black eye.”; [p. 247] Santayana quote highlighted: “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to relive it.”; [p. 251] Sydney Smith quote highlighted: “It is the calling of great men, not so much to preach new truths. as to rescue from oblivion those old truths which it is our wisdom to remember and our weakness to forget.”; [p. 386] Communist Manifesto quote highlighted: “The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrowing of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working-men of all countries, unite!”; [p. 387] Mao Tse-Tung quote highlighted: “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”; [p. 410] Sir Macfarlane Burnet quote highlighted: “The community gains no genetic benefit, and may develop a major social problem, when an immigrant group remains a close mating group so that no blending of characters with the bulk of the community can occur.”; [p. 411] earmarked and Lord [Ted] Willis quote highlighted: “I hope that young dramatists will realise that reality is not bounded by the bedsheets, that people have brains as well as genitals, that life is often more important than lust, and that gentleness and wisdom are not luxuries but necessities.”; [p. 415] earmarked and quote highlighted: “Today ignorance of the Scriptures is so widespread that most people would guess that this well-known saying is to be found somewhere in the bible. I remember the critical references before the war to the almost general failure of “educated” young men to recognize the origin of a Biblical allusion in the caption of a much-discussed London cartoon. This depicted Mussolini standing sated with the blood of Spain and Abyssinia while Neville Chamberlain washed his hands in the Mediterranean: “He took water and washed his hands”. Commenting on the fact that few members of the generation under thirty seemed to recognise even the commonest Biblical allusion, Kingsley Martin wrote: “The significance of this break in tradition is not easy to over-estimate. What do you make of much of English literature if you do not know the Bible story and if words rich in association and history come to you flat and poor like the newly invented name of a chemical?””; [p. 432] earmarked and quote of John Kennedy highlighted: “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived and dishonest – but the myth – persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.” and quote of Winston Churchill: “A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.”; [p. 434] quote of Henry Adams highlighted: “I have written too much history to believe in it. So if anyone wants to differ from me I am prepared to agree with him.”