There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.

A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor.

We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we have something to say, but all the words in all the dictionaries will not suffice when we have nothing to say and want desperately to say it.

We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to obtain excellence.

Somewhere between the Angels and the French lies the rest of humanity.

Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.

The leader personifies the certitude of the creed and the defiance and grandeur of power. He articulates and justifies the resentment damned up in the souls of the frustrated. He kindles the vision of a breath-taking future so as to justify the sacrifice of a transitory present. He stages a world of make-believe so indispensable for the realization of self-sacrifice and united action.