We say that if America has entered the war to make the world safe for democracy, she must first make democracy safe in America.

The State is a term for the legislative and administrative machinery whereby certain business of the people is transacted, and badly so.

Men towering high above such political pygmies, men of refinement, of culture, of ability, are jeered into silence as mollycoddles. It is absurd to claim that ours is the era of individualism. Ours is merely a more poignant repetition of the phenomenon of all history: every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass. Today, as ever, the few are misunderstood, hounded, imprisoned, tortured, and killed.

A politician, he knows that the majority cares little for ideals or integrity. What it craves is display.

Leo Tolstoy ... defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

... woman's narrow and purist attitude toward life makes her a greater danger to liberty wherever she has political power. Man haslong overcome the superstitions that still engulf women.

The majority cannot reason; it has no judgement. It has always placed its destiny in the hands of others; it has followed its leaders even into destruction. The mass has always opposed, condemned, and hounded the innovator, the pioneer of a new truth.