Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate the organized habits and opinions of the masses constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of the country....It remains a fact that in almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons....It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind, who harness old social forces and contrive new ways to bind and guide the world.

A handful of us determine what will be on the evening news broadcasts, or, for that matter, in the New York Times or Washington Post orW all Street Journal.... Indeed it is a handful of us with this awesome power.... And those [news stories] available to us already have been culled and re-culled by persons far outside our control.

We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years......It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supernational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

In questions of power then let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Men have come to speak of the revelation as somewhat long ago given and done, as if God were dead... It is the office of a true teacher to show us that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.