When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

While once it was the rank and file that cheered with all the partisan passions at their heights, today it is the party leaders who are cheering themselves; and all by themselves. The mob that is their audience is in one vast universal trance, thinking about something else.

Liberty has produced scepticism, and scepticism has destroyed liberty. The lovers of liberty thought they were leaving it unlimited, when they were only leaving it undefined. They thought they were only leaving it undefined, when they were really leaving it undefended.