We are told about the world before we see it. We imagine most things before we experience them. And those preconceptions, unless education has made us acutely aware, govern deeply the whole process of perception.

It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an axe the desires of men.

When everyone thinks the same, nobody is thinking.

I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.

We say that the truth will make us free. Yes, but that truth is a thousand truths which grow and change.

Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy.

I generalized rashly: That is what kills political writing, this absurd pretence that you are delivering a great utterance. You never do. You are just a puzzled man making notes about what you think. You are not building the Pantheon, then why act like a graven image? You are drawing sketches in the sand which the sea will wash away.