It is, of course, a trite observation to say that we live "in a period of transition." Many people have said this at many times. Adam may well have made the remark to Eve on leaving the Garden of Eden.

Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps.

After long experience of politics, I have never found that there is any inhibition caused by ignorance as regards criticism.

You can hardly say boo to a goose in the House of Commons now without cries of "Ungentlemanly," "Not fair" and all the rest.

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.