Administrators make work for each other so that they can multiply the number of their subordinates and enhance their prestige.

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

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.

Expenditure rises to meet income.

The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

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.