The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.

Totalitarianism spells simplification: an enormous reduction in the variety of aims, motives, interests, human types, and, above all, in the categories and units of power.

Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.

The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.

To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint.

It is easier to hate an enemy with much good in him than one who is all bad. We cannot hate those we despise.