“Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.”

“People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.”

“If you want to understand democracy spend less time in the library with Plato and more time in the buses with people.”

“If you want to understand democracy spend less time in the library with Plato and more time in the buses with people.”

“Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.”

“Yes, a war is inevitable. Firstly, there's you fellows who can't be trusted. And then there's the multitude who mean to have bathrooms and white enamel. Millions of them; all over the world. Not me...”

“Well-being is attained little by little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.”

“Be not the first by whom the new is tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside, is a safe rule for those who would always retain the good opinion of that all-powerful, but somewhat unintelligent,...”