No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

A family with the wrong members in control that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.