“If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle”
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Source: Letters of Sigmund Freud, 1873-1939

Source: The Doctrine of the Mean

Bacchae l. 472, as translated by Colin Teevan (2002)
The Europe Fiasco. p. 68.
The Light's On At Signpost (2002)

Officers and Gentlemen, The Saturday Evening Post, 29 December 1900.
Reproduced in The Collected Essays of Sir Winston Churchill, Vol I, Churchill at War, Centenary Edition (1976), Library of Imperial History, p. 51. ISBN 0903988429
Early career years (1898–1929)

David Eugene Smith, History of Modern Mathematics https://books.google.com/books?id=EwcCAAAAYAAJ, 1896; 1904