Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.
There are two ways of getting into the Cabinet - you can crawl in or kick your way in.
He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match.
Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.
In Germany democracy died by the headman's axe. In Britain it can be by pernicious anaemia.