The effort to calculate exactly what the voters want at each particular moment leaves out of account the fact that when they are troubled the thing the voters most want is to be told what to want.

Even God has been defended with nonsense.

Creative ideas come to the intuitive person who can face up to the insecurity of looking beyond the obvious.

When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.

If all power is in the people, if there is no higher law than their will, and if by counting their votes, their will may be ascertained - then the people may entrust all their power to anyone, and the power of the pretender and the usurper is then legitimate. It is not to be challenged since it came originally from the sovereign people.

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

The writers who have nothing to say, are the ones you can buy, the others have too high a price.