The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

A state is absolute in the sense which I have in mind when it claims the right to a monopoly of all the force within the community, to make war, to make peace, to conscript life, to tax, to establish and disestablish property, to define crime, to punish disobedience, to control education, to supervise the family, to regulate personal habits, and to censor opinions. The modern state claims all of these powers, and, in the matter of theory, there is no real difference in the size of the claim between communists, fascists, and Democrats.

Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.

The function of news is to signalize an event, the function of truth is to bring to light the hidden facts, to set them in relation with each other, and make a picture of reality on which men can act.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

There is only one purpose to which a whole society can be directed by a deliberate plan. That purpose is war, and there is no other.

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.