A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

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

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.

Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.

A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official power, official business, or official members, rather than to leave free the energies of mankind; it overdoes the quantity of government, as well as impairs its quality. The truth is, that a skilled bureaucracy is, though it boasts of an appearance of science, quite inconsistent with the true principles of the art of business.