In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich; then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.

Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.