Someone Asked Me Years Ago If It

When Politicians Say "i'm In Politics," It May Or May Not Be Possible To Trust Them, But When They Say, "i'm In Public Service," You Know You Should Flee.

Taking The State Wherever Found, Striking Into Its History At Any Point, One Sees No Way To Differentiate The Activities Of Its Founders, Administrators And Beneficiaries From Those Of A Professional-criminal Class.

The Question Of Who Is Right And Who Is Wrong Has Seemed To Me Always Too Small To Be Worth A Moment's Thought, While The Question Of What Is Right And What Is Wrong Has Seemed All-important.

It Is Easy To Prescribe Improvement For Others; It Is Easy To Organize Something, To Institutionalize This Or That, To Pass Laws, Multiply Bureaucratic Agencies, Form Pressure Groups, Start Revolutions, Change Forms Of Government, Tinker At Political Theory. The Fact That These Expedients Have Been Tried Unsuccessfully In Every Conceivable Combination For 6,000 Years Has Not Noticeably Impaired A Credulous Unintelligent Willingness To Keep On Trying Them Again And Again.

The Business Of A Scientific School Is The Dissemination Of Useful Knowledge, And This Is A Noble Enterprise And Indispensable Withal; Society Can Not Exist Unless It Goes On.