Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality.

A democracy which fails to concentrate authority in an emergency inevitably falls into such confusion that the ground is prepared for the rise of a dictator.

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.

There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.

It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor.

When everyone thinks the same, nobody is thinking.