Who said “In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the…”?

“Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same -- hardihood. Give them raw truth.”

“America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.”

“They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors.”

“These are days when no one should rely unduly on his ''competence.'' Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.”

“They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular.”

“More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.”

“Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.”

“The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.”

“In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.”

“There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.”

“The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.”