It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.

It is in the interest of the wage-earner to have many other alternatives open to him than service under one all-powerful employer called the State

Nothing can save England if she will not save herself. If we lose faith in ourselves, in our capacity to guide and govern, if we lose our will to live, then indeed our story is told.

Sometimes our best is simply not enough.... We have to do what is required.

History's villains are more easily recognized in retrospect. In an article published in 1935 and reprinted in 1937, Winston Churchill expressed a curious ambivalence towards the German chancellor prior to the outbreak of war: We cannot tell whether Hitler will be the man who will once again let loose upon the world another war in which civilization will irretrievably succumb, or whether he will go down in history as the man who restored honour and peace of mind to the great Germanic nation. . . .

I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which lead to a dark gulf.