ALBERT HOPMAN

He is vanity itself, sacrificing everything to his own moods and childish amusements, and nobody checks him in doing so.

Our system does not know how to bring strength and intellect into the front rank of politics and government...

For the last 25 years we have lived with a playful, unreasoning absolutism that found fulfillment in empty appearances and a vain craving for status which the nation indulged for too long…. Absolutist government was responsible for our failure to produce statesmen, and instead only bureaucrats and lackeys.

He is vanity itself, sacrificing everything to his own moods and childish amusements, and nobody checks him in doing so.

Our system does not know how to bring strength and intellect into the front rank of politics and government...

For the last 25 years we have lived with a playful, unreasoning absolutism that found fulfillment in empty appearances and a vain craving for status which the nation indulged for too long…. Absolutist government was responsible for our failure to produce statesmen, and instead only bureaucrats and lackeys.