Indifference is the essence of inhumanity.

I fought linotype and montype for some time because it would not justify as well as handset could be made to do; but at last, as always happens, the machine outdid the hand, and got all the best types on it.

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

If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.

I also made it quite clear that Socialism means equality of income or nothing, and that under socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly feed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you like it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live you would have to live well.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.