This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement - that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it - that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings.

Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men.

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.

Even God has been defended with nonsense.

The news and the truth are not the same thing.

Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality.

Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern.