America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.

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

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.

Francis Wheen takes a hugely enjoyable sweep through the tangled thickets of superstition and gullibility in which modern man likes to ramble. He takes particular delight in reminding us how easily fools are parted from their money and how many of them there are.

In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.

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

If life was what you made of it, then it could not be made for you.