Policy was not reconsidered because the governing group had no habit of purposeful consultation.

If they are afraid of revision in the laboratory, truth will never be released except by accident.

The fate of warnings in political affairs is to be futile when the recipient wishes otherwise.

Awful momentum makes carrying through easier than calling off folly.

His only weakness was the habit of prophesying war within the next fortnight. George Bernard Shaw

Everything interested him and everything excited him.