High sentiments always win in the end. The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.

Ignorance and prejudice are the ballast of our ship of state - however, ships without ballast are not seaworthy and cannot sail in the tempests, nor reach a safe harbor.

Within any important issue, there are always aspects no one wishes to discuss.

Napoleon is always right.

The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside