He That Has Done Nothing Has Known

Men Are To Be Guided Only By Their Self-interests. Good Government Is A Good Balancing Of These; And, Except A Keen Eye And Appetite For Self-interest, Requires No Virtue In Any Quarter. To Both Parties It Is Emphatically A Machine: To The Discontented, A Taxing-machine; To The Contented, A Machine For Securing Property. Its Duties And Its Faults Are Not Those Of A Father, But Of An Active Parish-constable.

A Person With Half Volition Goes Backwards And Forwards, But Makes No Progress On Even The Smoothest Of Roads.

War Is A Quarrel Between Two Thieves Too Cowardly To Fight Their Own Battle.

Worship Of A Hero Is Transcendent Admiration Of A Great Man.

The Times Are Very Bad. Very Well, You Are There To Make Them Better.