...every offensive lost its force as it proceeded. It was like throwing a bucket of water over the floor. It first rushed forward, then soaked forward, and finally stopped altogether until another bucket could be brought.

After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.

No socialist government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp or violently worded expressions of public discontent. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanly directed in the first instance.

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.

If you mean to profit, learn to please.

Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!

Give us the tools, and we will finish the job