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

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.

The small Hitlers are around us every day.

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

Throughout the history of Christianity, there had been a core of belief that man was not doomed to be everlastingly corrupt.

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.

Sometimes societies die and putrefy long before they are pronounced dead, and sometimes men die of corruption long before they have taken to their deathbeds.