You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic, clumsy and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.

When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.

This blessed gift of smoking!

Nothing could have been more obvious to the people of the early twentieth century than the rapidity with which war was becoming impossible. And as certainly they did not see it. They did not see it until the atomic bombs burst in their fumbling hands.

The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.

Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.

It's no use locking the door after the steed is stolen.