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

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

All wars are popular for the first 30 days.

I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the subsequent history of the twentieth century. Perhaps in the end he will conclude that the multitude of errors committed in the name of Munich may exceed the original error of 1938.

Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are.

Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process.

Every President reconstructs the Presidency to meet his own psychological needs.