The point of this book is that being Scottish is more than just a matter of nationality or place of origin or clan or even culture. It is also a stat… - Arthur Herman

The priceless copy of Magna Carta on display in the British pavilion was supposed to go home when the fair closed on October 1. After high-level discussion, however, officials thought it would be safer to let it stay in the United States.*

national self-determination (“no right anywhere exists to hand peoples from sovereignty as if they were property”),

No autocratic government could be trusted to keep faith within it or observe its covenants. It must be a league of honor, a partnership of opinion . . . Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end and prefer the interests of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.