"The modern power of the State began in the late fifteenth century and began as a result of gunpowder."

"Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid tha…"

"There is a great deal of difference between an open mind and an empty head."

"I should not hold it desirable that either a man or a woman should enter upon the serious business of a marriage intended to lead to children without having had previous sexual experience."

"In all affairs, it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted."