All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.

You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.