If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to read more

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

Many a bum show has been saved by the flag.

Many a bum show has been saved by the flag.

The more the world is specialized the more it will be run by generalists.

The more the world is specialized the more it will be run by generalists.

A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side.

A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side.

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from read more

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.

The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the
systematic organization of hatreds.

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the
systematic organization of hatreds.