What ass first let loose the doctrine that the suffrage is a high boon and voting a noble privilege?

Of all the classes of men, I dislike the most those who make their livings by talking - actors, clergymen, politicians, pedagogues, and so on. .... It is almost impossible to imagine a talker who sticks to the facts. Carried away by the sound of his own voice and the applause from the groundlings, he makes inevitably the jump from logic to mere rhetoric.

Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.

The Public ... demands certainties ... But there are not certainties

After all, the world is not our handiwork, and we are not responsible for what goes on in it, save within very narrow limits.

Government today is growing too strong to be safe. There are no longer any citizens in the world there are only subjects. They work day in and day out for their masters they are bound to die for their masters at call. Out of this working and dying they tend to get less and less.

All government, of course, is against liberty.