A nation has honor precisely as it has fleas — on this or that body. The statesman who talks of honor — unless he means something else, quite different — is a rogue.


The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell (1945)


A nation has honor precisely as it has fleas — on this or that body. The statesman who talks of honor — unless he means something else, quite...

A nation has honor precisely as it has fleas — on this or that body. The statesman who talks of honor — unless he means something else, quite...

A nation has honor precisely as it has fleas — on this or that body. The statesman who talks of honor — unless he means something else, quite...

A nation has honor precisely as it has fleas — on this or that body. The statesman who talks of honor — unless he means something else, quite...