Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

Power does not corrupt men fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.