Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.

During five literary generations every enlightened person had despised him, and at the end of that time nine-tenths of those enlightened persons are forgotten and Kipling is in some sense still there.

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

You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against us. But we create human nature. Men are infinitely malleable.

History has to move in a certain direction, even if it has to be pushed that way by neurotics.

He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable.