A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.

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.

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.

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Freedom rings where opinions clash.