Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat.

Men fall into a routine when they are tired and slack: it has all the appearance of activity with few of its burdens.

Nobody has yet found a way of bombing that can prevent foot soldiers from walking.

It is not the idea as such which the censor attacks, whether it be heresy or radicalism or obscenity. He attacks the circulation of the idea among the classes which in his judgment are not to be trusted with the idea.

The principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific substitute for civil war in which the opposing armies are counted and the victory is awarded to the larger before any blood is shed. Except in the sacred tests of democracy and in the incantations of the orators, we hardly take the trouble to pretend that the rule of the majority is not at bottom a rule of force.

When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.

Politicians tend to live "in character" and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism that describes him.