The objection to a Communist always resolves itself into the fact that he is not a gentleman.

It costs more to maintain ten vices than one virtue.

The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.

The natural tendency of every government is to grow steadily worse-that is, to grow more satisfactory to those who constitute it and less satisfactory to those who support it.

All talk of winning the people by appealing to their intelligence, of conquering them by impeccable syllogism, is so much moonshine.

It is Hell, of course, that makes priests powerful, not Heaven, for after thousands of years of so-called civilization fear remains the one common denominator of mankind

There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.