History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.

An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to act plays, historians to tell the truth, ministers to give advice, the poor to grumble at taxes, students to learn lessons aloud, workmen to praise their skill and seek work, people to speak of anything, and old men to find fault with everything.

Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change.

Wherever men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how things should be done.

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard