No man ever quite believes in any other man.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.

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

Looking for an honest politician is like looking for an ethical burglar.

[Government] is apprehended, not as a committee of citizens chosen to carry on the communal business of the whole population, but as a separate and autonomous corporation, mainly devoted to exploiting the population for the benefit of its own members.

No man is worthy of unlimited reliance-his treason, at best, only waits for sufficient temptation.