The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority.

In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.

There comes a time when even the reformer is compelled to face the fairly widespread suspicion of the average man that politics is an exhibition in which there is much ado about nothing.

Freedom to speak... can be maintained only by promoting debate.

We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead, we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilisations as a majority, people support or oppose the individuals who actually govern.

Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past.

The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority.