The cross cannot be defeated for it is defeat.

The sceptics, like bees, give their one sting and die.

For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.

Such professions as the soldier and the lawyer ... give ample opportunity for crimes but not much for mere illusions. ... If you have lost a battle you cannot believe you have won it; if your client is hanged you cannot pretend that you have gotten him off.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .

If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.