For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap.

A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment.

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labours of cabinets and foreign offices.

Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.

Peace will come to earth when the people have more to do with each other and governments less.

On the contrary, all the world would point to that nation as violating a treaty, by going to war with a country with whom they had engaged to enter into arbitration.

The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated.

Look not to the politicians; look to yourselves.

I took the repeal of the Corn Laws as light amusement compared with the difficult task of inducing the priests of all denominations to agree to suffer the people to be educated.

It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war.

I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards.

Your mind is the most incredible gift! A powerful mind is the reserve for all that is physical in stamina.

I wanted to explore sound, rather than composition and form.

Make yourself an example, achieve it, but don't hurt anyone on the way up. I don't think I did that.

He who laughs.....lasts.

Everybody needs a chance to find love.

Do not be deceived! The busiest people harbor the greatest weariness, their restlessness is weakness--they no longer have the capacity for waiting and idleness.

Those who say that the study of science makes a man an atheist, must be rather silly people.

The next time anyone asks you "What is Bertrand Russell's philosophy?" the correct answer is "What year, please?"

I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films.

Marx said that religion was the opiate of the people. In the United States today, opiates are the religion of the people.