Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men.

In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have a majority. It is just as necessary that the party in power should never outrage the minority.

The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even more, so that each of us may live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd.

Lovers who have nothing to do but love each other are not really to be envied; love and nothing else very soon is nothing else.

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 justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority.