In no other field has the world yet paid so dearly for the abandonment of nineteenth-century liberalism as in the field where the retreat began: in international relations. Yet only a small part of the lesson which experience ought to have taught us has been learned. Perhaps even more than elsewhere current notions of what is desirable and practicable are here still of a kind which may well produce the opposite of what they promise.

The conception that government should be guided by majority opinion makes sense only if that opinion is independent of government. The ideal of democracy rests…

That there is little hope of international order or lasting peace so long as every country is free to employ whatever measures it thinks desirable in its own i…

The first need is to free ourselves of that worst form of contemporary obscurantism which tries to persuade us that what we have done in the recent past was al…

We could have stopped this, we could still do so... But for the most part, we in the west have actually given comfort to the aggressor.

Government exists to create and preserve conditions in which people can translate their ideas into practical reality. In the best of times, much is lost in tra…

It pains me to hear that. He's gone back to nineteenth-century gunboat diplomacy -- go hit the wogs.