Quotes from Andrew Wareham

They view the government as their enemy, profit as their only friend – probably do not even see themselves as the traitors they are.

I had rather water in a port than from some uncertain creek or river on the Malay coast where for all you know there is a village hidden a mile upriver and crapping in it.

Don't like fish. They eat drowned sailors – don't seem right to eat them in return.

Strange habits the Americans have! To imagine a lawyer as a gentleman is a contradiction in terms, surely!

The law, however, was clear – a captain on his own quarterdeck might make mistakes, but being wrong was not one of them.

As it is a known fact that all queers are cowards, put him in danger's way and see what he does – if he shows brave, then he must have been falsely smeared by those who simply did not like him.

There were few avenues of appeal against a declaration of madness – the law holding that the madman was by his nature incapable of the rational decision to take legal action

All governments are made up of fools and they serve a lunatic.

the mines will provide a wage for the family to live on, the more for their providing work for all. I am told that there is a place for the smallest of boys and girls and all of the womenfolk as well as the men in the family. Between

Perhaps he should think more about his life, aim to make something of it. Trouble was, he could imagine nothing that he wanted especially. He was happy to be a jolly good chap, competent at anything he turned his hand to and never letting down a friend or colleague. It was not much.

Chain consisted of an iron ring of about four inches diameter with six lengths of iron chain, each about a fathom long, welded on and wrapped tight to the bore of a thirty two.

It gives one a reason to fight the French, certainly, sir." "I have never needed a reason, Mr Murray – it has always seemed the most natural of occupations to me. I have come to believe that the French were created merely so that the pugnacious English would have a legitimate target for their aggression.

Concepts of mercy and tolerance were rich people's luxuries, playthings for idle minds.

God alone knew what they could have done if the buttons had not been noticed before they reached France!

Still, be that as it may, the young master was at sea sinking Froggies, and that was a good thing, it was what Froggies were for, when all was said and done; no doubt it was God's punishment on them for not being English.

will be different

Hostis humani generis',

We live in a void, Prim. There is us and nothing else that is real, except that which we make. Reason is one of those things we invent to help us find our way. We have to find some goal. I have you and a comfortable life, and our family.

Cast Upon The Waters -

Davidson was in the bows with the master's night-glass, a short telescope with lenses of a broader than normal diameter to collect all of the available light. In some circumstances the night-glass could be a useful aid.

the land belonged to all of the generations of the family, including those yet unborn, and there was a duty to them.

Luckily, American politicians tend to be cheaply bought and we have been able to outbid the Kaiser.

provided only he knew what to expect. The trader who guessed wrongly what

Countries rise to power and then fall into triviality.