Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

Truth telling is not compatible with the defence of the realm.

The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

It's not that I'm so clever, it is that others are so stupid.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

Every man to whom salvation is offered has an inalienable natural right to say 'No, thank you: I prefer to retain my full moral responsibility: it is not good for me to be able to load a scapegoat with my sins: I should be less careful how I committed them if I knew they would cost me nothing.