Property can exist only under the guardianship of the State.
John Robert Seeley
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28SEP2026 – Quote of the Day
The chief forces which hold a community together and cause it to constitute one State are three, common nationality, common religion, and common interest.
John Robert Seeley
27SEP2026 – Quote of the Day
We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.
John Robert Seeley
26SEP2026 – Quote of the Day
It is a favourite maxim of mine that history, while it should be scientific in its method, should pursue a practical object. That is, it should not merely gratify the reader’s curiosity about the past, but modify his view of the present and his forecast of the future.
John Robert Seeley