The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.

Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.

In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic.

Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.

War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.

We have conferred a mystic popularity upon officials whose only virtue is their timidity; while our scorn of rebels and reformers is so great that we have ceased to persecute them. The capitals and governments of the world are in the hands of caution; and change comes over them only in the night, unseen.

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.