Platitude: a statement that denies by implication what it explicitly affirms.

I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.

A true conservative must necessarily be a conservationist.

Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their election campaigns. We have the best politicians that money can buy.

I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be.

Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses.

Concrete is heavy; iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.