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What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.

Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.

Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn’t worth ruling.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

No decent career was ever founded on a public.

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

The attainment of the present status of Thailand has to depend on the ability or the actions of all the inhabitants of the country.

A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.