“Gods and politics are the tools with which the godless and unprincipled manipulate the gullible.”

“When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.”

“Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man.”

“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.”

“Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.”

“However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.”