“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
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He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.
Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
A family with the wrong members in control that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.