The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.