The more a climate can be created in which neither the English nor the Scots are given cause to resent each other, the better.

Political genius consists in identifying oneself with a principle.

In England, even the poorest of people believe that they have rights; that is very different from what satisfies the poor in other lands.

The IRA sending a message of sympathy to America is like Jack the Ripper giving us a lesson in the sanctity of human life.

If there is writing on Hadrian's Wall, it reads that the English should leave Scotland to its own devices.

The more a climate can be created in which neither the English nor the Scots are given cause to resent each other, the better.

Those Victorians: endlessly fascinating, broad in their learning, heroic in their achievements, in parts completely mad.