Peace Is An Unstable Equilibrium,

Men Decided That It Was Better To Pay Taxes Than To Fight Among Themselves; Better To Pay Tribute To One Magnificent Robber Than To Bribe Them All.

Education Is A Progressive Discovery Of Our Own Ignorance.

A Statesman Cannot Afford To Be A Moralist.

The Fear Of Capitalism Has Compelled Socialism To Widen Freedom, And The Fear Of Socialism Has Compelled Capitalism To Increase Equality. East Is West And West Is East, And Soon The Twain Will Meet.

We Have Conferred A Mystic Popularity Upon Officials Whose Only Virtue Is Their Timidity; While Our Scorn Of Rebels And Reformers Is So Great That We Have Ceased To Persecute Them. The Capitals And Governments Of The World Are In The Hands Of Caution; And Change Comes Over Them Only In The Night, Unseen.