Lobbyists are the touts of protected industries.

To sit at one's table on a sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper, and a Squeezer pen - that is true happiness.

It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them.

The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

At the depths of that dusty soul there is nothing but abject surrender.

The dictator, in all his pride, is held in the grip of his party machine. He can go forward; he cannot go back. He must blood his hounds and show them sport, or else, like Actaeon of old, be devoured by them. All-strong without, he is all-weak within.