A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Quotes

“Here again we see the power of a great man to bring order out of ceaseless broils and command harmony and unity to be his servants”
― Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Collection: A One-Volume Abridgment by Christopher Lee

“This is the class – people of some consideration in the neighbourhood, with leisure to go to the sheriff’s court and thereafter to Westminster. Out of this process in time the Pyms and Hampdens arose.”
― Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Collection: A One-Volume Abridgment by Christopher Lee

“They were naturally for the Crown and a quiet life. Hence after centuries they rallied to the Tudor sovereigns; and in another age to the Parliament against the Crown itself.”
― Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Collection: A One-Volume Abridgment by Christopher Lee

“In some respects all this was a sudden acceleration of the drift toward the manorial system, a process which had already gone a long way in Anglo-Saxon England, and certainly in Wessex. But even in Wessex the idea still persisted that the tie of lord and man was primarily personal, so that a free man could go from one lord to another and transfer his land with him. The essence of Norman feudalism, on the other hand, was that the land remained under the lord, whatever the man might do. Thus the landed pyramid rose up tier by tier to the King, until every acre in the country could be registered as held of somebody by some form of service. But besides the services which the man owed to the lord in arms there was the service of attending the courts of the hundred and the county, which were, apart from exemptions, courts of the King, administering old customary law.”
― Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Collection: A One-Volume Abridgment by Christopher Lee

“Here again we see the power of a great man to bring order out of ceaseless broils and command harmony and unity to be his servants, and how the lack of such men has to be paid for by the inestimable suffering of the many.”
― Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Collection: A One-Volume Abridgment by Christopher Lee

“For four hundred years there had been order and law, respect for property, and a widening culture. All had vanished. The buildings, such as they were, were of wood, not stone. The people had lost entirely the art of writing. Some miserable runic scribblings were the only means by which they could convey their thoughts or wishes to one another at a distance.”
― Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Collection: A One-Volume Abridgment by Christopher Lee