Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.
The future never just happened. It was created.
The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.
Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, the [bankers] know that history is inflationary.
Who will dare to write a history of human goodness?
Every state begins in compulsion; but the habits of obedience become the content of conscience, and soon every citizen thrills with loyalty to the flag. The citizen is right; for however the state begins, it soon becomes an indispensable prop to order.