We're the most captive nation of slaves that ever came along. The moral timidity of the average American is quite noticeable. Everybody's afraid to be thought in any way different from everyone else.

History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.

My family helped start [this country], we've been in political life ... since the 1690s, and I have a very possessive sense about this country.

I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place

Before the cards that one is dealt by life are the cards that fate has dealt: one's family.

I was the first - I was extremely unpopular with the establishment of the United States, particularly the New York Times was always an enemy, and Time magazine, off and on, the enemy, because I said things and took positions that other people didn't do.

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.