It was not the violence of our enemies [in World War I] that would undo us, I thought, but our own spiritual weakness, the shallowness of our convictions.

Every smallest step of modern industry depends upon a cooperation whose maintenance and regulation is the very stuff of law.

There is nothing sinister in so arranging one's affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible.

I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon law and upon courts. These are false hopes, believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. While it lies there it needs no constitution, no law, no courts to save it.

A government of laws without men is as visionary as a government of men without laws.

Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.

I shall ask no more than that you agree with Dean Inge that even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them.