The commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes.

Always store beer in a dark place.

There are perhaps 5% of the population that simply can't think. There are another 5% who can, and do. The remaining 90% can think, but don't

A human being has no natural rights of any nature.

Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws - always for other fellow. A murky part of us, something we had before we came down out of trees, and failed to shuck when we stood up.

In past history popularly elected governments have been no better and sometimes far worse than overt tyrannies.

To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.