When you have lost your inns, drown your empty selves, for you will have lost the last of England.
Hilaire BellocThese are the advantages of travel, that one meets so many men whom one would otherwise never meet, and that one feeds as it were upon the complexity of mankind
Hilaire BellocStatistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.
Hilaire BellocWhen the mass of families in a State are without property, then those who were once citizens become virtually slaves. The more the State steps in to enforce conditions of security and sufficiency; the more it regulates wages, provides compulsory insurance, doctoring, education, and in general takes over the lives of the wage-earners, for the benefit of the companies and men employing the wage-earners, the more is this condition of semi-slavery accentuated.
Hilaire Belloc