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

In the end, advertising rests upon the fact that consumers are a fickle and superstitious mob, incapable of any real judgment as to what it wants or how it is to get what it thinks it likes.

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

The prophecy of a world moving toward political unity is the light which guides all that is best, most vigorous, most truly alive in the work of our time.

There is only one purpose to which a whole society can be directed by a deliberate plan. That purpose is war, and there is no other.

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.

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.