If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

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

Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn't do the hangman's job.

Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.

Using clichés is a substitute for thinking

Imperialism as he [Kipling] sees it is a sort of forcible evangelising.

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