Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.

The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration varies (other factors being equal) with the economic freedom permitted by morals and laws.

Hunting is now to most of us a game, whose relish seems based upon some mystic remembrance, in the blood, of ancient days when to hunter as well as hunted it was a matter of life and death.

Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them