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

The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.

Whereas each man claims his freedom as a matter of right, the freedom he accords to other men is a matter of toleration.

Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men.

A regime, an established order, is rarely overthrown by a revolutionary movement; usually a regime collapses of its own weakness and corruption and then a revolutionary movement enters among the ruins and takes over the powers that have become vacant.

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

Popular government has not yet been proved to guarantee, always and everywhere, good government.