"When democracy turns, as it often does, into a corrupt plutocracy, both national decadence and social revolution are being prepared."

"... we are not rational beings; we are rationalizing beings."

"Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction, and skillful execution."

"But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile."

"I believe in intuition and inspiration ... at times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason."

"​Half at least of all morality is negative and consists in keeping out of mischief."

"Man: For his pleasure: Marriage;
On his thinking it over: Divorce."

"A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.  To make them love it is the task assigned, in present-day totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda, newspaper editors, and school-teachers.
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Great is the truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view is silence about the truth.  By simply not mentioning certain subjects, by lowering what Mr. Churchill calls an 'iron curtain' between the masses and such facts or arguments as the local political bosses regard as undesirable, totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have done by the most eloquent denunciations, the most compelling of logical rebuttals.
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Only a large-scale popular movement towards decentralization and self help can arrest the present tendency towards statism."

"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people."

"By the side of those religious men I discern others whose thoughts are turned to the earth rather than to heaven.  These are the partisans of liberty, not only as the source of the noblest virtues, but more especially as the root of all solid advantages; and they sincerely desire to secure its authority, and to impart its blessings to mankind.  It is natural that they should hasten to invoke the assistance of religion, for they must know that liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith."

"... young men are no fit auditors of moral philosophy, because they are not settled from the boiling heat of their affections, nor attempered with time and experience."