"Mob rule and emasculation of the wise'..." - Quote by Plato

“The truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs to a wider whole.”

“Wisdom is a blaze, kindled by a leaping spark.”

“A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.”

“In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.”

“I've set my own rules to live by. The first one is: 'Never believe ANYthing the government says.'”

“The bureaucracy takes itself to be the ultimate purpose of the state”

“Lenin was sent into Russia by the Germans in the same way that you might send a phial containing a culture of typhoid or cholera to be poured into the water supply of a great city, and it worked with amazing accuracy.”

“Coming of age in a fascist police state will not be a barrel of fun for anybody, much less for people like me, who are not inclined to suffer Nazis gladly and feel only contempt for the cowardly flag-suckers who would gladly give up their outdated freedom to live for the mess of pottage they have been conned into believing will be freedom from fear.”

“We are no petty people. We are one of the great stocks of Burke; we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the people of Parnell. We have created most of the modern literature of this country. We have created the best of its political intelligence.”