For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they do but marshal us the way that we are going.

There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led.

That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.

An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis.

We see what we want to see, and observation conforms to hypothesis.

Words are one of our chief means of adjusting to all the situations of life. The better control we have over words, the more successful our adjustment is likely to be.