Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
Maybe they were terrorists!