I decline utterly to be impartial as between the fire brigade and the fire.

Trust me not at all, or all in all.

Until you stop being governed by your emotions you cannot be impartial.

I do not wish...to call myself any Thing but an Independent Whig. Which in words is hardly a distinction, as every one alike pretends to it.

Refuse to accept partial completeness.

As a historian I refuse to recognize an epochal boundary before the fact.

I can't look to contingencies.

Armed neutrality, it now appears, is impracticable.

Things oughtn’t to be the way they are, altogether. But letting a madman burn down the barn is no way to improve them.

They have put political correctness above common sense, above your safety, and above all else. I refuse to be politically correct.

I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all.

I simply cannot accept that there are, on every story, two equal and logical sides to an argument.

There has been no satisfaction, and I will not absolve them.

You can't trust anyone, just me.