Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.

The onset of one religion can be resisted only by another.

It is now well known, however, that men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

People of great ability do not emerge, as a rule, from the happiest background. So far as my own observation goes, I would conclude that ability, although hereditary, is improved by an early measure of adversity and improved again by a later measure of success.

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.