Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.
When they circumcised Herbert Samuel they threw away the wrong bit
Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.
A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.
You cannot trust the interests of any class entirely to another class; and you cannot trust the interests of any sex to another sex.
No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it. My own conviction is this, the people must either go on or go under.