Ferdinand Mount

Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.

Something is happening to Britain and the British. Or has happened. We are said to be passing through a transition, or a turning point, or a transformation; nobody is quite sure which.

We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

The judge decided in this case that both the state and the defense would have the opportunity to respond to certain kinds of press. This is one such instance.