What each man does is based not on direct and certain knowledge, but on pictures made by himself or given to him...

Where mass opinion dominates the government, there is a morbid derangement of the true functions of power. The derangement brings about the enfeeblement, verging on paralysis, of the capacity to govern. This breakdown in the constitutional order is the cause of the precipitate and catastrophic decline of Western society. It may, if it cannot be arrested and reversed, bring about the fall of the West.

The devil is merely a fallen angel, and when God lost Satan he lost one of his best lieutenants.

Politicians tend to live "in character" and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism that describes him.

When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.

The man who raises new issues has always been distasteful to politicians. He musses up what had been so tidily arranged.

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.