In all my life I have treated the press with marked contempt and remarkable success.

We took the name 'Liberal' because we were determined to be a progressive party, willing to make experiments, in no sense reactionary but believing in the individual, his rights, and his enterprise, and rejecting the socialist panacea.

When people meet my wife they think better of me. They say: "With a wife like that, he can't be as bad as we thought".

I am one of the few men honest enough to say they do not understand women.

One speaks with great respect of economists, if only because they represent such a variety of opinions.

Thinking ahead, what really happens to us will depend on how many people we have who are of the great and sober and dynamic middle-class - the strivers, the planners, the ambitious ones.

Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.