We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.

The English are probably more capable than most peoples of making revolutionary change without bloodshed. In England, if anywhere,it would be possible to abolish poverty without destroying liberty.

Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.

But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.

I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.

A Socialist United States of Europe seems to me the only worth-while political objective today

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent, but the tests that have to be applied to them are not, of course, the same in all cases.