“I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the ...” — Julia Ward Howe Quote

“I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind.”

“Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.”

“Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.”

“In the span of a human lifetime, and well within the collective memory, Britain went from a stable imperial power ruling an appreciable fraction of the Earth's surface to being a tumultuous patchwork which was at least superficially in decline.”

“The Irish move to a very low corporation tax has generated very significant revenue growth, considerably in excess of Britain's, where a slower economy has been combined with a number of stealth taxes.”

“If a terrorist group wanted to hit Britain, all they'd have to do is kill 100 random celebrities. The country would have a nervous breakown.”