C. Northcote Parkinson People Quotations

In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

People of great ability do not emerge, as a rule, from the happiest background. So far as my own observation goes, I would conclude that ability, although hereditary, is improved by an early measure of adversity and improved again by a later measure of success.