We are in the presence of a recruiting drive systematically and deliberately undertaken by American business, by American universities, and to a lesser extent, American government, often initiated by talent scouts specially sent over here to buy British brains and preempt them for service of the U.S.A. ... I look forward earnestly to the day when some reform of the American system of school education enables them to produce their own scientists so that, in an aimiable free trade of talent, there may be adequate interchange between our country and theirs, and not a one-way traffic.

If dictatorship is the concentration of power, freedom consists in its diffusion.

The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion.

Mercy is not what every criminal is entitled to. What he is entitled to is justice.

The moment politics becomes dull, democracy is in danger.

Abuse is the very hallmark of liberty.

The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.