To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint. They are eager to barter their independence for relief from the burdens of willing, deciding and being responsible for inevitable failure. They willingly abdicate the directing of their lives to those who want to plan, command and shoulder all responsibility.

However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.

All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.

Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others.

In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.

It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice of some of the moral sense, which cramps and restrains our nature.

You cannot gauge the intelligence of an American by talking with him; you must work with him. The American polishes and refines his way of doing things-even the most commonplace-the way the French of the 17th century polished their maxims.