The Lion and the Unicorn quotes

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

It is simply an affirmation of naked power; contained in it, quite consciously and intentionally, is the vision of a boot crashing down on a face.

It is a land where the bus conductors are good-tempered and the policemen carry no revolvers.

England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly.

A family with the wrong members in control—that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

They take their cookery from Paris and their opinions from Moscow.

A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.

Revolution does not mean red flags and street fighting, it means a fundamental shift of power.

The lady in the Rolls-Royce car is more damaging to morale than a fleet of Goering's bombing planes.

We cannot win the war without introducing Socialism, nor establish Socialism without winning the war.

It will shoot traitors, but it will give them a solemn trial beforehand and occasionally it will acquit them.

I believe in England, and I believe that we shall go forward.