There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered.

The substitution of the internal combustion engine for the horse marked a very gloomy milestone in the progress of mankind.

We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges

In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet.

There is no surer method of economizing and saving money than in the reduction of the number of officials.

The English are loth to express their feelings, but in my stall in the choir I could feel the pent-up, passionate emotion, and also the fear of the congregation, not of death or wounds or material loss, but of defeat and the final ruin of Britain.