There are no inevitabilities in history

Democracy has many enemies, and the terrorist is only one of them.

Human beings are infinitely worth studying, especially the peculiarities that often go along with outstanding gifts.

I very much wanted to be editor of the 'New Statesman!' But I never wanted to be prime minister, except maybe as a little boy.

If we want foxes, to observe and delight in, we must have hunting.

This book is dedicated to the people of America--strong, outspoken, intense in their convictions, sometimes wrong-headed but always generous and brave, with a passion for justice no nation has ever matched.

Marxism, Freudianism, global warming. These are proof - of which history offers so many examples - that people can be suckers on a grand scale. To their fanatical followers they are a substitute for religion. Global warming, in particular, is a creed, a faith, a dogma that has little to do with science.