"Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change."

"Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic."

"Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power."

"We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought."

"A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out."

"It is not fit that every man should travel it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse."

"My real adversary has no name, no face, no party. It will never be elected, yet it governs - the adversary is the world of finance."

"The world is being run by irresponsible spoiled brats."