To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy.

Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.

I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.

No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus.

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.

Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.