“The ordinary citizen is allowed to hear and think only as the rulers decree.”

Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.

Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.

Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.

A period of silence on your part would be welcome.

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.

An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.

If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim.

We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.

Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.

The real test of one’s belief in the doctrine of Habeas Corpus is not when one demands its application on behalf of one’s friends but of one’s enemies.

You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt

Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it.

A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement

There is a denial of the value of the individual.

I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27.

The press lives on disaster.

Let me just say that we are under the consent decree. There are people in our city [Baltimore] along with the police department and advocates who believe that this is absolutely the right thing to do.

There are now that 20 consent decrees in place like the one in Baltimore that are helping put broken police departments on a path to reform. And this is long work.

Thereof I believe that no tribunal of any church has any power to make any decree of any force in the law of the land, other than to establish the status of its own communicants within its own church.

I think everybody understood what happened, why this consent decree came about after the Freddie Gray situation. There was tension on both sides.