To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of communication.

satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.

Historians who stuff in every item of research they have found, every shoelace and telephone call of a biographical subject, are not doing the hard work of selecting and shaping a readable story.

Of all the ills that our poor ... society is heir to, the focal one, it seems to me, from which so much of our uneasiness and confusion derive, is the absence of standards.

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

In the United States we have a society pervaded from top to bottom by contempt for the law.

Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.