The small Hitlers are around us every day.

Long before the empire had reached its greatest extent, the Romans were bored by it.

A totalitarian dictatorship cannot explain; it can only suppress.

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.

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.

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

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