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.

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

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

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.

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

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 corrupt man is nearly always rootless, deeply aware of his rootlessness.