Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging ...toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
On the other side, the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able, and cultivated part of the population, is timid, a...nd merely defensive of property. It vindicates no right, it aspires to no real good, it brands no crime, it proposes no generous policy, it does not build, nor write, nor cherish the arts, nor foster religion, nor establish schools, nor encourage science, nor emancipate the slave, nor befriend the poor, or the Indian, or the immigrant.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the T...ory Party.... So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative in...tellectuals, full of witty disloyalties.... The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country.... When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick ... the trade union for the nati...on as a whole.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »