Enemies promises were made to be broken.

Enemies promises were made to be broken.

It is a dangerous and idle dream to think that the state can become rule by philosophers turned kings or read more

It is a dangerous and idle dream to think that the state can become rule by philosophers turned kings or scientists turned commissars. For if philosophers become kings or scientists commissars, they become politicians, and the powers given to the state are powers given to men who are rulers of states, men subject to all the limitations and temptations of their dangerous craft. Unless this is borne in mind, there will be a dangerous optimistic tendency to sweep aside doubts and fears as irrelevant, since, in the state that the projectors have in mind, power will be exercised by men of a wisdom and degree of moral virtue that we have not yet seen. It won't. It will be exercised by men who will be men first and rulers next and scientists and saints long after.

I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty.

I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty.

We once worried that democracy could not survive if an undereducated populace knew too little. Now we worry if it read more

We once worried that democracy could not survive if an undereducated populace knew too little. Now we worry if it can survive us knowing too much.

We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.

We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.

The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.

The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.

There in no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.

There in no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

All that Communism needs to make it successful is someone to feed and clothe it.

All that Communism needs to make it successful is someone to feed and clothe it.