Eric Hoffer

A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.

To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye.

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?