Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

Lack of money is the root of of all evil.

Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged class.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.

The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.

A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.