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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

The idea that to make a man work you’ve got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We’ve done that for so long that we’ve forgotten there’s any other way.

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

Conventionality is not morality.

There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid.

A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody’s opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu.

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good.

Madness is rare in individuals – but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.