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.

He is only a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of the Conservative.

If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a development, often a late development and very often indeed the end of societies that have been highly democratic. A despotism may almost be defined as a tired democracy. As fatigue falls on a community, the citizens are less inclined for that eternal vigilance which has truly been called the price of liberty; and they prefer to arm only one single sentinel to watch the city while they sleep.

There is no better test of a man's ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong... A stiff apology is a second insult.

And it is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely.

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.