When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental - men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost... All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre.

Save among politicians it is no longer necessary for any educated American to profess belief in Thirteenth Century ideas

The chief business of the nation, as a nation, is the setting up of heroes, mainly bogus.

In every woman's life there is one real and consuming love. But very few women guess which one it is.

The real man lies in the depths of subconscious.

He sailed through American history like a steel ship loaded with monoliths of granite.

It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts.