An aphorism is not an aphorism unless you know what it means.

Land monopoly is not only monopoly, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies; it is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly.

Nobody ever launched an attack without having misgivings beforehand, You ought to have misgivings before; but when the moment of action is come, the hour of misgivings is passed. It is often not possible to go backward from a course which has been adopted in war. A man must answer "Aye" or "No" to the great questions which are put, and by that decision he must be bound.

Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Some civil servants are neither servants nor civil.

When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.