“England can never be ruined except by a parliament.”

“You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs—except in England, of course.”

“I must say… that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.”

“The people of England will curse themselves for having preferred ruin from Churchill to peace from Hitler.”

“What can the England of 1940 have in common with the England of 1840? But then, what have you in common with the child of five whose photograph your mother keeps on the mantelpiece? Nothing, except that you happen to be the same person.”

“It is absolutely incomprehensible to us that intelligent men — and such are not wanting in the collectivist party — can remain partisans of national or municipal parliaments after all the lessons history has given them — in France, in England, in Germany, or in the United States.”

“Never ruin an apology
with an excuse.”

“And comparing what happened in England—after all, in England the Parliament in Westminster was making laws for the West Indies. The West Indians didn't have any representation in the Parliament. The laws were made for them, and they had to go along with it. There was no such power within the Federal government to interfere with slavery, except by limiting the expansion of slavery. And it was Lincoln’s belief—and I think the best economic analysis that we have of the American economy in the antebellum United States indicates—that if the expansion of slavery had been ended, and if it was no longer possible for surplus slaves to be sold from the old states to new territories, that the pressure within the states to adopt programs of emancipation would become great enough to do that.”

“You can never teach them, except by the slow lesson of habit.”

“There is no sense in loving someone you can never wake up to except by chance.”