There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

War remains the decisive human failure.

To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.

The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.

The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.