Once the people begin to reason, all is lost. I have a simple principle for the conduct of life - never to resist an adequate temptation. There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice. Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and comes to regard the public as its enemy.
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly success, and are right. Even more important than winning the election is governing the nation. That is the test of a political party - the acid, final test. I glory more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.