In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes.

You ask men in office to be honest; I ask them to serve the public.

It is privilege that causes evil in the world, not wickedness, and not men.

Somebody must take a chance. There are monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in trees making faces at the monkeys who did.