It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained barbarians.

You may think a crime horrible because you could never commit it. I think it is horrible because I could commit it.

We are Christians and Catholics not because we worship a key, but because we have passed a door; and felt the wind that is the trumpet of liberty blow over the land of the living.

The idea of private property universal but private, the idea of families free but still families, of domesticity democratic but still domestic, of one man one house - this remains the real vision and magnet of mankind. The world may accept something more official and general, less human and intimate. But the world will be like a broken-hearted woman who makes a humdrum marriage because she may not make a happy one; Socialism may be the world's deliverance, but it is not the world's desire.

Big Business and State Socialism are very much alike, especially Big Business.

The Party System was founded on one national notion of fair play. It was the notion that folly and futility should be fairly divided between both sides.

The eagle has no liberty; he only has loneliness.