The Irish author and socialist wrote:
There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.
The Man of Destiny (1898).
Sounds kind of bitter — but also kind of timely.
Barry Barnett
