Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible.

The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one’s own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are only 'doing their duty'