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

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.

Nietzsche's accomplishment is that he permits us to see corruption from the inside.

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.

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.

It is precisely when we help one another that we gain our victories over corruption, but the victory is assured only when we help one another with all our strength.

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