I have argued with him on almost every subject in the world, and we have always been on opposite sides, without affectation or animosity... It is necessary to disagree with him as much as I do, in order to admire him as I do; and I am proud of him as a foe even more than as a friend.

There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of the Middle Ages: the Trade Unions.

Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.

The big corporation is not in the least remarkable for efficiency; it is only too big to be blamed for its inefficiency.

Business, especially big business, is now organized like an army. It is, as some would say, a sort of mild militarism without bloodshed; as I say, a militarism without the military virtues.

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

No man should leave in the universe anything of which he is afraid.