A democracy which fails to concentrate authority in an emergency inevitably falls into such confusion that the ground is prepared for the rise of a dictator.

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

The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.

Genius sees the dynamic purpose first, find reasons afterward.

There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.