In all countries with a settled bureaucracy people used to say: The cabinets come and go, but the bureaus remain.

Louis XIV was very frank and sincere when he said: I am the State. The modern statist is modest. He says: I am the servant of the State; but, he implies, the State is God. You could revolt against a Bourbon king, and the French did it. This was, of course, a struggle of man against man. But you cannot revolt against the god State and against his humble handy man, the bureaucrat.

The greater productivity of work under the division of labor is a unifying influence. It leads men to regard each other as comrades in a joint struggle for welfare, rather than as competitors in a struggle for existence. It makes friends out of enemies, peace out of war, society out of individuals.

Public opinion takes no offense at the endeavors of farmers, workers, clerks, teachers, doctors, ministers, and people from many other callings to earn as much as they can. But it censures the capitalists and entrepreneurs for their greed.

In all countries with a settled bureaucracy people used to say: The cabinets come and go, but the bureaus remain.

The mixing of politics and business not only is detrimental to politics, as is frequently observed, but even much more so to business.

The uncouth hordes of common men are not fit to recognize duly the merits of those who eclipse their own wretchedness.