"In all ages, whatever the form and name of government, be it monarchy, republic, or democracy, an oligarchy lurks beh…"

"Without a party a statesman is nothing. He sometimes forgets that awkward fact."

"The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the Commonwealth."

"The political cant of a country is naturally and always most strongly in evidence on the side of the vested interests…"

"At Rome all men paid homage to libertas, holding it to be something roughly equivalent to the spirit and practice of …"

"The twentieth century had conclusively settled the question of how a society should be organised: liberal democracy, …"

"For James, there was no sense that expanding Tesco’s sales onto the web was what the human race urgently needed. It d…"

"It was insane that you had to pretend to be interested in your job and use these lame phrases like “pinging things ov…"

"James had assumed this would be a task of meticulous detection, of inefficiencies brilliantly uncovered, but there wa…"

"James was twenty- seven and never had a boss again. Until that moment, he and Roland had lived as employees, as if in…"