Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, the [bankers] know that history is inflationary.
Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.
There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.
The victors called the revolution a triumph of liberty; but now and then liberty in the slogans of the strong means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.