Only the very rarest of princes can endure even a little criticism, and few of them can put up with even a pause in the adulation.

So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is necessary to sacrifice some of it.

We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead, we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilisations as a majority, people support or oppose the individuals who actually govern.

The function of news is to signalize an event, the function of truth is to bring to light the hidden facts, to set them in relation with each other, and make a picture of reality on which men can act.

Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created.

Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.

Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past.