That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer.

The world’s a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a different path each goes astray.

Everyone sees they cannot well live asunder, nor many together, without some rule to which all must submit.

A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.

There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit to be commanders or leaders, who most excel in the virtues required for...

If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.

If you’ve broken the eggs, you should make the omelette.

For all true love is grounded on esteem.

God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate it.

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

This submission is a restraint of liberty, but could be of no effect as to the good intended, unless it were general; nor general, unless it were natural.

Loyalty to the family must be merged into loyalty to the community, loyalty to the community into loyalty to the nation, and loyalty to the nation into loyalty to mankind. The citizen of the future...

Corruption never has been compulsory.

And as they pass, turn back and laugh at me.

Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed… to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.

I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.

‘Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.

Relativity must replace absolutism in the realm of morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology.

Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.

Men’s fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.

Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections… nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect.

Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write.

To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery.

Let everyone regulate his conduct… by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.

Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.

Good wits will jump.

No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest.

Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.

They’re just actors. I much prefer the real thing!

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward.

We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.

What the devil does the plot signify, except to bring in fine things?

Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in...

Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.

In the end we are all sacked and it’s always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers.

Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.

You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.

And so I gave up everything for it – time, energy, research – I dropped everything and so yes False Impression to me was very important indeed.

That is the best Government, which best provides for war.

From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man’s duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it.

There’s nothing so improves the mood of the Party as the imminent execution of a senior colleague.

The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.

Liars need to have good memories.

As I say, my real interest is in writing.

The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy.

The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at...

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

All the nations they had to deal with, had the same fate.

It may have modified, it may have changed slightly, but don’t let’s kid ourselves, Margaret Thatcher did things the rest of the world followed.

The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature.