The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

When great questions end, little parties begin.

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

The real essence of work is concentrated energy.

Not only does a bureaucracy tend to under-government in point of quality; it tends to over-government in point of quantity.

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.

It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.