Naked power has its limitations, since power is a generator of corruption and corruption in its turn tends to dilute the effectiveness of power.

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.

The United States is dangerously close to being a plutocracy. A third of the private wealth is owned by less than 5 percent of the population.

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.

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

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

For domination has nothing whatsoever to do with good government, and power as an end in itself destroys good government.