Uncorrupted man, with God's blessing, advances across the fields of the universe as though he were walking down a country lane.

Corruption appears to be a universal phenomenon that lays its own imperious claims on the world, and therefore it is the duty of all nations to prepare themselves against its onslaught by taking proper precautions.

The game of power is played remorselessly by men who have not the slightest knowledge of, or interest in, the way ordinary people live, and the ordinary people are too terrified to protest.

A culture is not only the language and the arts of a people. It is all their history, all their hopes for the future.

A nation's wealth is too serious a matter to be left to the wealthy. The riches of a nation belong to all, to be shared among all for the general welfare.

It is almost a general rule that nations do not decline gradually. Instead they fall abruptly from their greatest heights.

It is no more rational to have lawyers in positions of power than it would be to have garbage collectors in positions of power. And in human terms garbage collectors would be preferable.