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.

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.

All is forgiven to kings and popes. History grants them immunity, even a full pardon, even when they admit their crimes and glory in them.

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.

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

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

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.