It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.

Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.

The devil is compromise.

I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority

Oh, yes--you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side--unfortunately; but right it has not.

In great memories there lies the seed of growth.

I'm plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.