In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.

When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world.

When the individual feels, the community reels.

There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provocation.

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

You all remember, I suppose, that beautiful and inspired saying of Our Ford's: History is bunk.

This concern with the basic condition of freedom -- the absence of physical constraint -- is unquestionably necessary, but is not all that is necessary. It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison and yet not free -- to be under no physical constraint and yet to be a psychological captive, compelled to think, feel and act as the representatives of the national State, or of some private interest within the nation, want him to think, feel and act.