“Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all passions.”

“The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.”

“The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.”

“Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.”

“One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.”

“There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who are against the existing chief power. Oppositions which do not express genuine social forces are as trivial, in relation to entrenched power, as the old court jesters.”