August 20, 2025

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion. In other words, people will always say and do what their neighbours say and do, no matter what the law allows or forbids or has nothing to say on a subject.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity