Eternity is a long time, especially towards the end.

To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.

God makes all things good; man meddles with them and they become evil.

Tout le sang qui coule rouge; All blood is red.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution

Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; have in general been as short in their lives as they are violent in their deaths.

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over lousy fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average of the world’s great civilizations before they decline has been 200 years. These nations have progressed in this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to Complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back again to bondage.

Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.