Politics is activity in relation to power

Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.

A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible

To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary

Leftist ideas are a part of the very atmosphere which American youth breathes

Hatred is not contained in political thinking. Any hatred worked up against the public enemy is non-political, and always shows some weakness in the internal political situation.

Man as a pure animal does not exist