Of those immediately about him, he can and does at once get rid as soon as he begins to dislike, and before he has cause to hate them.

It is our maxim that greed of wealth or lust of power are the chief motives of tyranny.

Our rulers cannot well hope to extend a power already autocratic, and we take care to leave them nothing to covet in the way of wealth.

We can afford to give them all that they can desire of luxury and splendour.

To enrich to the uttermost a few dozen governors costs us nothing comparable to the cost of democracy, with its inseparable party conflicts, maladministration, neglect, and confusion." "A clever writer on Earth lately remarked that it would be easy to satiate princes with all personal enjoyments, but impossible to satiate all their hangers-on, or even all the members of their family." "You must remember," he replied, "that we have here, save in such exceptional cases as my own, nothing like what you call a family.