No people ever recognize their dictator in advance. He never stands for election on the platform of dictatorship. He always represents himself as the instrument - the Incorporated National Will. ... When our dictator turns up you can depend on it that he will be one of the boys, and he will stand for everything traditionally American. And nobody will ever say "Heil" to him, nor will they call him "Führer" or "Duce." But they will greet him with one great big, universal, democratic, sheeplike bleat of "O.K., Chief! Fix it like you wanna, Chief! Oh Kaaaay!"

The United States is not a nation of people which in the long run allows itself to be pushed around.

It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.

To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.

The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear, a disastrous circle.

The prices are ridiculous... I don't see how people can go back and forth to work or to school. How can we afford the gas?

Hate smolders and eventually destroys, not the hated but the hater.