Nothing is worthy of man as man unless he can pursue it with passionate devotion.

The great virtue of bureaucracy - indeed, perhaps its defining characteristic ~ was that it was an institutional method for applying general rules to specific cases, thereby making the actions of government fair and predictable.

Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.

The nation is burdened with the heavy curse on those who come afterwards. The generation before us was inspired by an activism and a naive enthusiasm, which we cannot rekindle, because we confront tasks of a different kind from those which our fathers faced.

Man does not by nature wish to earn more and more money.

Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.

The organization of ofices follows the principle of hierarchy ... each lower office is under the control and supervision of a higher one