All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.

I cry for those not yet dead.

Control the coinage and the courts — let the rabble have the rest.

Madness in method, that's genius

Every civilization must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray, or countermand almost any conscious intention of the collectivity.

People don't vote. Instinct tells them it's useless.

Law is the ultimate science.