The smashing of idols is in itself such a preoccupation that it is almost impossible for the iconoclast to look clearly into a future when there will not be many idols left to smash.

No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.

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

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

In the end, advertising rests upon the fact that consumers are a fickle and superstitious mob, incapable of any real judgment as to what it wants or how it is to get what it thinks it likes.

There comes a time when even the reformer is compelled to face the fairly widespread suspicion of the average man that politics is an exhibition in which there is much ado about nothing.

Lovers who have nothing to do but love each other are not really to be envied; love and nothing else very soon is nothing else.