Who said “Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.”?

“First we have to believe, and then we believe.”

“In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.”

“We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.”

“As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.”

“It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.”

“Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.”

“Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.”

“In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.”

“The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being -- which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs -- where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.”

“Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.”

“There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.”