Instead of recognizing the State as ‘the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men,’ the run of mankind, with rare exceptions, regards it not only as a final and indispensable entity, but also as, in the main, beneficent. The mass-man, ignorant of its history, regards its character and intentions as social rather than anti-social; and in that faith he is willing to put at its disposal an indefinite credit of knavery, mendacity and chicane, upon which its administrators may draw at will.

As sheer casual reading matter, I still find the English dictionary the most interesting book in our language.

As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.

You get the same order of criminality from any State to which you give power to exercise it; and whatever power you give the State to do things for you carries with it the equivalent power to do things to you.

Like Prince von Bismarck in diplomacy, I have no secrets.

The only thing that the psychically-human being can do to improve society is to present society with one improved unit.

I have often wondered why the sounds of the beating drums do not make the marching soldiers shoot their officers and go home.