A reasonable change of the world can not be instrumented by pure reason.

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand

In this country, you never pull the emergency brake, even when there is an emergency. It is imperative that the trains run on schedule.

What the world needs is not redemption from sin but redemption from hunger and oppression; it has no need to pin its hopes upon Heaven, it has everything to hope for from this earth.

Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal.

The savages don't have atom bombs.

A world is in flames, and you are cracking silly jokes.