That peculiar disease of intellectuals, that infatuation with ideas at the expense of experience, that compels experience to conform to bookish expectations.

The only thing about a man that is a man . . . is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse.

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only, that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold.

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

If God is God He is not good, if God is good He is not God; take the even, take the odd.

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing.

There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American dream.