The mass of the reading public is not interested in learning and assimilating the results of accurate investigation.

The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being - which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs - where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.

It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an axe the desires of men.

In the blood of the martyrs to intolerance are the seeds of unbelief

Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.

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

Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism.