Churchill

[leftwinger]

...For, as in the Roman State, when there are no more worlds to conquer and no rivals to destroy, nations exchange the desire for power for the love of art, and so by a gradual, yet continual, enervation and decline turn from the vigorous beauties of the nude to the more subtle allurements of the draped, and then sink to actual eroticism and

Comments

[nikolai521]

Have you heard of neoconservatives citing Churchill as their father?

[leftwinger]

I have indeed.

[falcon13]

a little actual eroticism never hurt anyone

attributed to Condi Rice in a discussion of the 'L' [legacy] word with W.