Nothing increases the number of jobs so rapidly as labor-saving machinery, because it releases wants theretofore unknown, by permitting leisure.

Leadership is obliged to justify itself daily.

The great truth is that women actually like men, and men can never believe it.

The craving for power is in itself a sign of inferior abilities and unfitness for responsibility.

Now the sole remedy for the abuse of political power is to limit it; but when politics corrupt business, modern reformers invariably demand the enlargement of the political power.

Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse or omission.

The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.