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

The only feeling that anyone can have about an event he does not experience is the feeling aroused by his mental image of that event ... For it is clear enough that under certain conditions men respond as powerfully to fictions as they do to realities.

Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it.

Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign.

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

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 simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.