A rational man acting in the real world may be defined as one who decides where he will strike a balance between what he desires and what can be done.

The self-evident truth which makes men invincible is that inalienably they are inviolable persons.

We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.

A regime, an established order, is rarely overthrown by a revolutionary movement; usually a regime collapses of its own weakness and corruption and then a revolutionary movement enters among the ruins and takes over the powers that have become vacant.

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

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