Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a slave to the most incidental and trivial part of his forefathers glory - to the archaic formula which happened to express their genius or the eighteenth-century contrivance by which for a time it was served.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

But what is propaganda, if not the effort to alter the picture to which men respond, to substitute one social pattern for another?

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

The facts we see depend on where we are placed and the habits of our eyes.

We must protect the right of our opponents to speak because we must hear what they have to say.