Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past.

The man who raises new issues has always been distasteful to politicians. He musses up what had been so tidily arranged.

A really good diplomat does not go in for victories, even when he wins them.

No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.

So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is necessary to sacrifice some of it.

Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a slave to the most incidental and trivial part of his forefathers glory - to the archaic formula which happened to express their genius or the eighteenth-century contrivance by which for a time it was served.

When everyone thinks the same, nobody is thinking.