The real test of one's belief in the doctrine of Habeas Corpus is not when one demands its application on behalf of one's friends but of one's enemies.

Charity is a cold grey loveless thing. If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim.

No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.

When we are returned to power we want to put in the statute book an act which will make our people citizens of the world before they are citizens of this country.

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.

If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you're half-way to a dictatorship.

I believe that the foundation of democratic liberty is a willingness to believe that other people may perhaps be wiser than oneself.

You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt

A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women's beds in a week. A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour's wife over the garden fence.

We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty. We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.

Winston Churchill - fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.

Bak stood a moment, as though considering whether the sum total of their shared working life was ending in a minus or a plus.

For a while, Criticism travels side by side with the Work, then Criticism vanishes and it's the Readers who keep pace. The journey may be long or short.

I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato.

Be firm or mild as the occasion may require.

An understanding is perhaps better than an alliance, which may stereotype arrangements which cannot be regarded as permanent in view of the changing circumstances from day to day.

Classical music presents some of the world's most challenging pieces.

I am a bit biased. I co-chair the campaign effort of George W. Bush.

I'm an optimistic agnostic. I think the second we die, within a matter of seconds, everybody else arrives, and that's the party, and you live your hell on earth.

Writing is the only thing in my life that doesn't get easier. It just doesn't.

Politics moves upward into ethics, and ethics ascends to theology.