Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.

It is very doubtful whether man is enough of a political animal to produce a good, sensible, serious and efficient constitution. All the evidence is against it.

The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.

We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.