Foolish consistencies are the hobgoblins of small minds!

The first lesson of history is that evil is good.

When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field, the next man will appear.

Power is in nature the essential measure of right.

Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men.

Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.

A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless. I want to devote my limited life to serving the people limitlessly.