I think that the essence of a free and civilized society is that everything in it should be subject to criticism, that all forms of authority, should be treated with a certain reservation.

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

I think that Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late.

A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.

The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

I have to say that I think that Anthony Eden was probably the most disastrous Prime Minister in our history, and I am not forgetting Lord North and a few people like that.

I wouldn't have said that Anthony Eden was equipped by nature to deal with the situation in the world today. I would have said that he was portentous, sincere, honest and rather stupid.