Even God has been defended with nonsense.

Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism.

Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created.

I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.

The self-evident truth which makes men invincible is that inalienably they are inviolable persons.

Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a slave to the most incidental and trivial part of his forefathers glory - to the archaic formula which happened to express their genius or the eighteenth-century contrivance by which for a time it was served.

The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.