Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.

No opinion has ever been too errant to become a creed.

It is in the nature of imperialism that citizens of the imperial power are always among the last to know-or care-about circumstances in the colonies.

Ignore fact and reason, live entirely in the world of your own fantastic and myth-producing passions; do this whole-heartedly and with conviction, and you will become one of the prophets of your age.

The commonest objection to birth control is that it is against nature.

America remained a land of promise for lovers of freedom. Even Byron, at a moment when he was disgusted with Napoleon for not committing suicide, wrote an eloquent stanza in praise of Washington.

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get.