In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.

While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important.

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

What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.

The devil is merely a fallen angel, and when God lost Satan he lost one of his best lieutenants.

Where mass opinion dominates the government, there is a morbid derangement of the true functions of power. The derangement brings about the enfeeblement, verging on paralysis, of the capacity to govern. This breakdown in the constitutional order is the cause of the precipitate and catastrophic decline of Western society. It may, if it cannot be arrested and reversed, bring about the fall of the West.

Freedom to speak... can be maintained only by promoting debate.