Yes, freedom is good, but arguably, grammar is better.

Politicians are like God. No one believes in them, they haven't done anything for ages, and they give jobs to their immediate family

If Britons were left to tax themselves, there would be no schools, no hospitals, just a 500-mile-high statue of Diana, Princess of Wales.

Genghis Miliband roars up to the despatch box like a caged donkey.

To all the revolutionaries fighting to throw off the yoke of tyranny around the world: look at British democracy. Is that what you want?

Nice mix of Tory MPs saying this issue shouldn't be used for petty political pointscoring, & Tory MPs trying to score petty political points.

-I'm your girlfriend?- "No." Alexei shakes his head, then pulls me to him again, holds me closer. "There's not a word in either of our language for what you are to me".

Democracy is in the blood of the Muslims, who look upon complete equality of mankind, and believe in fraternity, equality, and liberty.

The only true experience is of the immediate present

Then he kept to the back streets, and found a place that did a very reasonable double sausage, egg, bacon and fried slice, in the hope that food could replace sleep.

I experience the age I am now as an age at which I must ensure that I already am what I insist or believe I am going to be.

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.

Almost all the progress ever made in human thought has been made by the Doubting Thomas's, the questioners, the challengers, the show-me crowd.

True genius repeats itself forever, and never repeats itself--one ever varied sense beams novelty and unity on all.

Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries.

Things get better--hurt less--over time. If you let them.