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I owe nothing to Women’s Lib.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

War is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

The common agenda both sides seem to share is: Whatever works.

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

It’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.