The urge to distribute wealth equally, and still more the belief that it can be brought about by political action, is the most dangerous of all popul…

- Paul Johnson

The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not acknowledge this truth.

- Paul Johnson

If you depart from moral absolutes, you go into a bottomless pit. Communism and Nazism were catastrophic evils which both derived from moral relativi…

- Paul Johnson

Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down, and never sit down when you can lie down.

- Paul Johnson

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

- Paul Johnson

Bismarck had cunningly taught the parties not to aim at national appeal but to represent interests. They remained class or sectional pressure-groups …

- Paul Johnson

There are no inevitabilities in history

- Paul Johnson

Global warming, like Marxism, is a political theory of actions, demanding compliance with its rules.

- Paul Johnson

My grandfather used to say, "Learn to like art, music and literature deeply and passionately. They will be your friends when things are bad". It is t…

- Paul Johnson