The purse strings tie us to our kind.

Stupidity is nature's favorite resource for preserving consistency of opinion.

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

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

Persecution in intellectual countries produces a superficial conformity, but also underneath an intense, incessant, implacable doubt.

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

We see but one aspect of our neighbor, as we see but one side of the moon; in either case there is also a dark half, which is unknown to us. We all come down to dinner, but each has a room to himself.