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Graphic Quotes: Joseph Sobran

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“In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in high school to teaching Remedial English in college.” – Joseph Sobran

Graphic Quotes: Jordan Peterson on Thought

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“In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.” – Jordan Peterson

Graphic Quotes: George Orwell on Destroying People

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“The most effective way to destroy people is to obliterate their own understandingof their history.” – George Orwell

History!

I do not know when the term “know your enemy” got started, but I cannot imagine a soldier such as George Washington, not wanting to know his enemy. Sir Henry Clinton, born April 16, 1730, is one Washington would want to know everything about. He was the British Commander-in-Chief in North America for most of the war.

Sir Henry Clinton, British general, b. in 1738 [April 16, 1730]; d. in Gibraltar, Spain, 23 Dec, 1795, became a captain of the guards in 1758, and served in Hanover during the remainder of the seven years' war. In May, 1775, having attained the rank of major-general, he was sent to Boston, along with Burgoyne and Howe. In the following winter he went on an expedition to North Carolina to co-operate with the loyalists there and redeem the colony for the king. Sir Peter Parker, with the fleet and re-enforcements from Ireland, was to join him there, but was detained by contrary winds and did not reach the American coast till May. The overwhelming defeat of the tories at Moore's Creek in February made Clinton think it unsafe to land in North Carolina. He cruised up and down the coast until Parker's arrival, and it was then decided to go south and capture Charleston. On 28 June they attacked Fort Moultrie, in Charleston harbor, and were totally defeated. Clinton then sailed for New York and took part in Gen. Howe's campaigns from the battle of Long Island to the capture of Philadelphia. When Howe sailed for Chesapeake bay in the summer of 1777, Clinton was left in command of New York. About this time he was made K. C. B. In September he stormed Forts Clinton and Montgomery, on the Hudson river, and sent a force to relieve "Burgoyne at Saratoga, but too late to be of any avail. On Sir William Howe's resignation, 14 April, 1778, Clinton was appointed commander-in-chief of his majesty's forces in America, with the rank of lieutenant-general. In June he evacuated Philadelphia, and on his retreat through New Jersey fought an indecisive battle with Washington at Monmouth Court-House. In December, 1779, he set sail for South Carolina, taking Lord Cornwallis with him, and leaving Gen. Knyphausen in command of New York. In the spring he invested Charleston, and on 12 May succeeded in capturing that city, together with the whole southern army of 6,000 men under Gen. Lincoln. This was one of the heaviest blows dealt to the Americans during the revolutionary war, and it may well have consoled Sir Henry Clinton for his humiliating defeat before Charleston in 1776. Leaving Cornwallis in command at the south. Sir Henry returned to New York, and during the summer matured, in concert with Benedict Arnold, the famous scheme for the treasonable surrender of West Point. He accomplished nothing more of a military nature, as his army in New York was held in virtual blockade by Washington. In October, 1781, Sir Henry set sail for Chesapeake bay with a large naval and military force, to relieve Lord Cornwallis, but did not arrive in the neighborhood until after the surrender; on hearing of which, without landing, he returned to New York. He was soon afterward superseded by Sir Guy Carleton, and returned to England in June, 1782. He was elected to parliament, and afterward made governor of Limerick. In 1793 he was appointed to the command of Gibraltar. He wrote "A Narrative of the Campaign in 1781 in North America" (London, 1783; re- printed, Philadelphia, 1865); a rejoinder to Lord Cornwallis's "Observations" on the aforesaid; and "Observations on Stedman's History of the American War" (London, 1794).

Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography, Volume 1, edited by James Grant Wilson, John Fiske, 1888.

A portrait of Clinton by John Smart, c. 1777, National Institute of American History and Democracy.

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Amen. “In one way we think a great deal too much of the atomic bomb. ‘How are we to live in an atomic age?’ I am tempted to reply: ‘Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a Viking age when raiders from Scandinavia might land and cut your throat any night; or indeed, as you are already living in an age of cancer, an age of syphilis, an age of paralysis, an age of air raids, an age of railway accidents, an age of motor accidents.’
In other words, do not let us begin by exaggerating the novelty of our situation. Believe me, dear sir or madam, you and all whom you love were already sentenced to death before the atomic bomb was invented: and quite a high percentage of us were going to die in unpleasant ways. We had, indeed, one very great advantage over our ancestors—anesthetics; but we have that still. It is perfectly ridiculous to go about whimpering and drawing long faces because the scientists have added one more chance of painful and premature death to a world which already bristled with such chances and in which death itself was not a chance at all, but a certainty.
This is the first point to be made: and the first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things—praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.” 1948