“Bullock by name, and Bullock by nature.”

The Welfare State, South Africa – and it becomes impossible to seriously confront any of them without understanding their historical background.

Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.

Evil is a form of incompetence.

Take any important issue of our time – Northern Ireland, Nuclear Disarmament, Race,

A nation’s sense of its history is indistinguishable from its social cohesion.

Hitler’s dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law.

The corruption of people is to behave in an inhuman way.

Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive.

But to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance.

No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade.

History, well taught, is the demythologising of the past.

Hitler had a plausible case to argue when he claimed that the Anschluss was only the application of the Wilsonian principle of self-determination.

If the country is to survive as a democracy it will depend on voters who understand how our political institutions have evolved and the events that went into their creation.

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.

Issues of pride and judgment and gossip and slander and other types of sexual immorality, gluttony, you name it.

Sometimes, you are going to miss a person who was an almost to you. And feel sad because there is no name for that feeling.

Rock ‘n roll is really swing with a modern name. It began on the levees and plantations, took in folk songs, and features blues and rhythm.

This has upset the ‘media establishment’ but has made Fox the most powerful name in the news.

Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”

We have calcium in our bones, iron in our veins, carbon in our souls and nitrogen in our brains. 93 percent stardust, with souls made of flames, we are all just stars that have people names.

It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest.