The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.

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

You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?

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 like to quote myself frequently and often, it makes me sound much more intelligent than I actually am.

God help England if she had no Scots to think for her.

The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.