If human progress had been more a matter of leadership we should be in Utopia to-day.

One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.

They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.

All the wisdom of the world consists of shouting with the majority.

They could do worse, and they undoubtedly will.

It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.

One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.

The best system is to have one party govern and the other party watch.

A statesman is a successful politician who is dead.

The reason why the race of man moves slowly is because it must move all together.

Politics is mostly pill-taking.

Don't Trust BlindlyIf in shark infested waters, don't assume the fin coming toward you is a dolphin.

The ignoramus crow of "love it or leave it" omits other viable options, such as staying and changing it.

If half of a country is rotten, the other half will soon start rotting as well!

I figure I've done what I could do, more or less, and now I'm going back to being a chemical; all we are is a lot of talking nitrogen, you know.

Come, live with the doors of the senses guarded, diligent and mindful, vigilant and mindful, with the ways of the mind well watched, possessed of a mind that is awake and observing.

Unlike these powerful grown-ups, children have no ideologies to reinforce, no superstructure of political opinion to promote, no civic equanimity or image to defend, no personal reputation to secure.

Only someone who'd never been an animal would put up a sign saying not to feed them.

Everybody knows that you've been faithful, give or take a night or two.

In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world.

Daring enthusiasm And abiding cheerfulness Can accomplish everything on earth Without fail.