Every politician is emphatically a promising politician.

To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.

When men cease to believe in God, they will believe in anything

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

The world will very soon be divided, unless I am mistaken, into those who still go on explaining our success, and those somewhat more intelligent who are trying to explain our failure.

The oligarchic character of the modern English commonwealth does not rest, like many oligarchies, on the cruelty of the rich to the poor. It does not even rest on the kindness of the rich to the poor. It rests on the perennial and unfailing kindness of the poor to the rich.

Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?