January 12, 2025

[On hearing Lady Mountbatten’s anti-monarchical views] How easy it seems for a semi-royal millionnairess, who has exhausted all the pleasures of money and position, to turn almost Communist!

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant.

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