Church attendance in all industrialized societies is the best predictor of right-leaning political ideology

As with the decline in trust, however, the alignment of right-leaning political parties with churchgoing wasn't something made only in America. It happened everywhere. The most religious people in every industrialized country have come to support the party of the right. It seemed to come as a surprise to Americans after the 2000 election that those who attended church once a week were overwhelmingly Republican. But there wasn't anything unusual about that relationship. A survey of thirty-two countries in the late 1990s found that seven out of ten of those of who attended church once a week voted for the political party on the right. In fact, church attendance in all industrialized societies is the best predictor of right-leaning political ideology.

B. Bishop, The big sort (2008), 127

Behind it all, he is likably vacuous, someone who has decided to become the Plutarchian hero in the same way that others become bankers

Lafayette is the true opposite of Talleyrand. They are born and die within a few years of each other, both have illustrious ancestors, both are involved in everything. Lafayette, convinced from the very start he is moving with the times, is especially eager every now and again to strike historic poses, and in the meantime to survive. He has an unshakeable capacity not to notice. Talleyrand also moves with the times, follows the trends, changes his shirts and his allegiances.

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It is difficult to rage at Lafayette. Behind it all, he is likably vacuous, someone who has decided to become the Plutarchian hero in the same way that others become bankers. And he has also chosen it because it is an occasional occupation that allows him plenty of spare time. 

R. Calasso, The ruins of Kasch (1983), tr. R. Dixon (2018), 26-27

They become disgusted with our manner of life, and the care and pains that are necessary to support it

The predilection of Europeans for Indian ideas went beyond the co-opting of knowledge. Most remarkably of all is that, when captured on the northern frontier of what was to become Maine, fr instance, the English preferred the Indian way if living .... Benjamin Franklin, fir one, was quite clear about this, writing in 1753:

when white persons of either sex have been taken prisoners young by the Indians, and lived a while among them, tho' ransomed by their Friends, and treated with all imaginable tenderness to prevail them to stay among the English, yet in a short time they become disgusted with our manner of life, and the care and pains that are necessary to support it, and take the first good opportunity of escaping again into the woods, from whence there is no reclaiming them.

J.H.C. King, Blood and Land: the story of native North America (2016), 183

The most potent revolutionary threat the nineteenth century had yet seen

The whole disastrous story of the National Guard during the siege was a shining example of half-measures. In response to popular pressures, the Government had raised 400,000 Gardes; but, doubtful of their reliability (both military and political), it had trained and armed them insufficiently to be of any combat value - yet just enough to constitute the most potent revolutionary threat the nineteenth century had yet seen.

A. Horne, The terrible year: the Paris commune, 1871 (1971), 59

The views of the rest of the country had never been considered for a moment

At the same time, as in the case of past revolutions, France was now ruled by a Government formed by Parisians, and for Parisians. The views of the rest of the country had never been considered for a moment.

A. Horne, The terrible year: the Paris commune, 1871 (1971), 11

The execution of a king was a greater sin than the Crucifixion, since Christ had not actually been anointed

Some Jacobites believed that King James II should have been canonised like St James because of his devout Catholic faith. Others believed that King Charles should also be canonised as 'the execution of a king was a greater sin than the Crucifixion, since Christ had not actually been anointed, and that he was simply the uncrowned King of the Jews'.

R. Pound, 'A shrine to the Stuart dynasty: Lord Burlington and Jacobite symbolism at Chiswick House', Royal Stuart Journal 9 (2018), 34