A totalitarian dictatorship cannot explain; it can only suppress.

The small Hitlers are around us every day.

At the heart of the mystery of corruption lies the desire of one man to impose his will on others to the largest possible extent.

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

The corrupt, when found out, become especially good moralists.

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

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.