When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Only the very rarest of princes can endure even a little criticism, and few of them can put up with even a pause in the adulation.

When all think alike, then no one is thinking

The effort to calculate exactly what the voters want at each particular moment leaves out of account the fact that when they are troubled the thing the voters most want is to be told what to want.

In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.

It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor.