"Early in life I noted that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper, but in the Spanish War I saw newspaper reports which did not bear the remotest relation to the facts, not even the relati…"

"One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool."

"Myths which are believed in tend to become true."

"The great mass of the people are not interested in politics."

"A people that has once been thoroughly purged of the desire for liberty will not regain it."