Quotes from Paul Johnson

To many, Heathrow in August is a paradigm of Hell.

John Major is what he is: a man from nowhere, going nowhere, heading for a well-merited obscurity as fast as his mediocre talents can carry him.

Courage is the essential element in any great public man or woman.

For me this is the vital litmus test: no intellectual society can flourish where a Jew feels even slightly uneasy.

It would be wrong to say I enjoy having rows, because that would be un-Christian. If people attack me, then I respond, or if they do very wicked things. Then they must be brought to book.

Long periods of recession, which tend to be self-perpetuating, are usually ended by war, or by preparations for it.

Where the quest for knowledge is relatively, and now almost absolutely, unrestrained, the public benefit will be great, especially where the certainty of the law ensures that knowledge is rewarded. This is exactly the combination that is the foundation of wealth-creation.

A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art; it emerges.