It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.

I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written.

Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence.

Winston Churchill could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war.

Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.