The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease should be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must start somewhere.

He has to conceal what he would most wish to make public, and make public what he would most wish to conceal.

Rules were made for fools to follow and wise men to be guided by.

What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.

I do not resent criticism, even when for the sake of emphasis; it parts for the time with reality.

You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.

Champagne is the wine of civilization and the oil of government.