The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

Land monopoly is not only monopoly, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies; it is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly.

We are weakened and we are tired, but we are not done yet.

Golf. Trying to knock a tiny ball into an even smaller hole with implements ill suited to the purpose.

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

He is like a female llama surprised in her bath.

[Should Britain fail, then the entire world would] sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister ... by the lights of perverted science.