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.

Without some form of censorship, propaganda in the strict sense of the word is impossible. In order to conduct propaganda there must be some barrier between the public and the event.

So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is necessary to sacrifice some of it.

Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they hear, their table-talk, gossip, controversies, historical sense and scientific training, the values they appreciate, the quality of life they admire. All communities have a culture. It is the climate of their civilization.

The man who raises new issues has always been distasteful to politicians. He musses up what had been so tidily arranged.

When everyone thinks the same, nobody is thinking.

In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.