The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

I do not deny the possibility that the people may err in an election; but if they do, the true cure is in the next election.

What good fortune for governments that the people do not think.

The application of force alone, without support based on a spiritual concept, can never bring about the destruction of an idea or arrest the propagation of it, unless one is ready and able to ruthlessly to exterminate the last upholders of that idea even to a man, and also wipe out any tradition which it may tend to leave behind.

The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.