The art of politics is to separate actions from consequences

The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.

Nothing but mountains filled with barbarous ethnics with views as medieval as their muskets, and unspeakably cruel too.

A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.

A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

Pose a political threat to Business As Usual, and sooner or later, mostly sooner, someone will try to kill you.

No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.