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

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

Go ahead and do the impossible. It's worth the look on the faces of those who said you couldn't.

The reason why so few good books are written is, that so few people that can write know anything. In general an author has always lived in a room, has read books, has cultivated science, is acquainted with the style and sentiments of the best authors, but he is out of the way of employing his own eyes and ears. He has nothing to hear and nothing to see. His life is a vacuum.

What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.

Efficiency in an assembly requires a solid mass of steady votes; and these are collected by a deferential attachment to particular men, or by a belief in the principles that those men represent, and they are maintained by fear of those men - by the fear that if you vote against them, you may soon yourself have no vote at all.

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.