A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.

Something is happening to Britain and the British. Or has happened. We are said to be passing through a transition, or a turning point, or a transformation; nobody is quite sure which.

America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.

Why should people be expected to think about the meaning of life merely because they happen to be ill? That is just the time when there is no time to think about such things, because the body is so greedy for attention.

What the world needs now is more Americans. The U.S. is the first nation on earth deliberately dedicated to letting people choose what they want and giving them a chance to get it.

I hate churches, all of them. But they used to know something about the importance of silence.

No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.