We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.

That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.

For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they do but marshal us the way that we are going.

Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.

We see what we want to see, and observation conforms to hypothesis.

Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be brief and pithy, but it can easily cause confusion and obscurity and must be used with skill.

An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis.