Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose

If there is hope, it lies in the proles.

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.

Before the war, and especially before the Boer War, it was summer all the year round.

I am well acquainted with all the arguments against freedom of thought and speech - the arguments which claim that it cannot exist, and the arguments which claim that it ought not to. I answer simply that they don't convince me and that our civilization over a period of four hundred years has been founded on the opposite notice.

Manchester is the belly and guts of the nation

The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.