The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
