The politician who once had to learn to flatter Kings has now to learn how to fascinate, amuse, coax, humbug, frighten, or otherwise strike the fancy of the electorate.

What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game...There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.

Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.

I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.

I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me to possess that assimilating capability to the changing phase of existence which can make itself appeal to every age... I have studied him - the wonderful man, and in my opinion far from being an Anti-Christ he must be called the Saviour of Humanity.

It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation.