Wednesday 16 July 2014

The Wit and Wisdom of... Jeremy Thorpe

Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life.

Jeremy Thorpe, Liberal MP, in 1962, about Harold Macmillan's brutal Cabinet reshuffle, dubbed 'The Night of the Long Knives'. The quote is a deliberate inversion of John 15:13.

No comments:

Post a Comment