Political nationalism has become for our age the most important thing in the world, more important than civilization, humanity, decency, kindness, pity; more important than life itself.

It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only make them right by discussion.

The root of the problem is very simply stated: if there were no sovereign independent states, if the states of the civilized world were organized in some sort …

Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible.

English civilization - the humanizing, the bringing into one harmonious and truly humane life, of the whole body of English society-that is what interests me.

There is a decivilizing bug somewhere at work; unconsciously persons of stern worth, by not resenting and resisting the small indignities of the times, are pre…

Of course man is useful to man, because his body is a marvellous machine and his mind an organ of wonderful efficiency. But he is a spirit as well, and this sp…