Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.

And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.