In your reaction to an imagined attack on your country or an insult to its government, you draw closer to the herd for protection, you conform in word and deed, and you insist vehemently that everybody else shall think, speak, and act together. And you fix your adoring gaze upon the State, with a truly filial look, as upon the Father of the flock.

All we can ever do in the way of good to people is to encourage them to do good to themselves.

A good discussion increases the dimensions of everyone who takes part.

We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear.

Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.

In your reaction to an imagined attack on your country or an insult to its government, you draw closer to the herd for protection, you conform in word and deed, and you insist vehemently that everybody else shall think, speak, and act together. And you fix your adoring gaze upon the State, with a truly filial look, as upon the Father of the flock.

War is the Health of the State.