“MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought.”

“He has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.”

“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

“Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.”

“A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril. ”

“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.”

“I've gotten more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.”