November 10, 2025

You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.

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.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master.