To understand is not only to pardon, but in the end to love.

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

I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.

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.

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.

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.

It has been the fashion to speak of the conflict between human rights and property rights, and from this it has come to be widely believed that the use of private property is tainted with evil and should not be espoused by rational and civilized men... the only dependable foundation of personal liberty is the personal economic security of private property. The Good Society.