I'd rather spend half an hour in the company of a top carpenter, than three hours in the company of an average brain surgeon

Immense deposits of kimmeridge clay, containing the oil-bearing bands or seams, stretch across England from Dorsetshire to Lincolnshire. [An early political recognition of the native resource. The Geological Survey had identified the inflammable oil shale in reports since at least 1888.]

A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.

Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.

You can always rely on America to do the right thing -- once it has exhausted the alternatives.

There is a good saying to the effect that when a new book appears one should read an old one. As as author I would not recommend too strict an adherence to this saying.

We shall fight in parking lots, we shall fight in empty fields and on wide streets, we shall never surrender.