To serve the public interest is not the same as being a servant of public opinion.

Stupidity is sometimes the greatest of historical forces.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

No one who accepts the sovereignty of truth can be a foot soldier in a party or movement. He will always find himself out of step.

Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.

[A]nti-Semitism was rife in almost all varieties of socialism.

Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.