Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something. That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent. A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.
Facts are ventriloquists' dummies.