Self-righteousness in retrospect is easy--also cheap.

Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.

Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.

What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.

The first rule of democracy is to distrust all leaders who begin to believe their own publicity.

Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer.

The only President who clearly died of overwork was Polk, and that was a long time ago. Hoover, who worked intensely and humorlessly as President, lived for more than thirty years after the White House; Truman, who worked intensely and gaily, lived for twenty