I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.

He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match.

He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.

Trade unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos.

In Germany democracy died by the headman's axe. In Britain it can be by pernicious anaemia.

I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.

We should not be pushing out figured when the facts are in the opposite direction.