The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.