No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.

Let us never allow ourselves to think that poverty is an excuse for an invitation to totalitarianism, and if we should be tempted to think as much, let us remind ourselves that totalitarianism not only extinguishes liberty but institutionalises poverty as well

The cure for mixed metaphors, I have always found, is for the patient to be obliged to draw a picture of the result.

The less the power, the greater the desire to exercise it.

Once, when a British Prime Minister sneezed, men half a world away would blow their noses. Now when a British Prime Minister sneezes nobody else will even say 'Bless You'.

Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it.

It is assumed that when anyone gets into debt, the fault is entirely and always the fault of the lender.