Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past.

A democracy which fails to concentrate authority in an emergency inevitably falls into such confusion that the ground is prepared for the rise of a dictator.

Even God has been defended with nonsense.

There comes a time when even the reformer is compelled to face the fairly widespread suspicion of the average man that politics is an exhibition in which there is much ado about nothing.

No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.

Love endures when the lovers love many things together And not merely each other.

The invisible government [bosses] is malign. But the evil doesn't come from the fact that it plays horse with the Newtonian theory of the constitution. What is dangerous about it is that we do not see it, cannot use it, and are compelled to submit to it.