“The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.”

“Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.”

“What we learn from history is that we do not learn from history”

“It is well-known what a middleman is; he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.”

“The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.”

“An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.”

“My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. ”