nothing would be more fatal than for the Government of States to get in the hands of experts. Expert knowledge is limited knowledge, and the unlimited ignorance of the plain man who knows where it hurts is a safer guide than any rigorous direction of a specialized character.

You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.

Lots of folks are forced to skimp to support a government that won't.

They have done what they like. Their difficulty is to like what they have done.

I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I might have gotten here on my own.

He has to conceal what he would most wish to make public, and make public what he would most wish to conceal.

Elections exist for the sake of the House of Commons and not the House of Commons for the sake of elections.

Democracy is a very bad form of government ... but all the others are so much worse.