There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the mind.

When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.

Threats alone are the weapons of the threatened man.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

The biggest man was a baby one time.

It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government itself. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction.