So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
When great questions end, little parties begin.
A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.
All people are most credulous when they are most happy.
The great pleasure of life is doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.
But of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers.