It seems to me that a great university ought to have room in it for men subscribing to every sort of idea that is currently prevalent

Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.

No politician is ever benefited by saving money; it is spending it that makes him.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together.

Any defeat, however trivial, may be fatal to a savior of the plain people. They never admire a messiah with a bloody nose.

Richard Strauss--Old Home Week in Gomorrah

Governments, whatever their pretensions otherwise, try to preserve themselves by holding the individual down ... Government itself, indeed, may be reasonably defined as a conspiracy against him. Its one permanent aim, whatever its form, is to hobble him sufficiently to maintain itself.