It is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for taxation.

Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that it practically drives out of existence the moral forces?

I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time.

People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any act of Parliament.

A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.

The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation. It is the prolonged sacrifice of the rights of some persons at the bidding and for the satisfaction of other persons. The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them.