So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win i…

In excited states of the public mind they have scarcely a discretion at all; the tendency of the public perturbation determines what shall and what shall not b…

If we launch a pre-emptive strike on Iraq we lose all moral authority,

All political arrangements, in that they have to bring a variety of widely-discordant interests into unity and harmony, necessarily occasion manifold collision…