Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.

History is the great propagator of doubt.

No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.

If men are to respect each other for what they are, they must cease to respect each other for what they own.

Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.

Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions.

The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.