Men who think in lifetimes are of little use to statesmanship.

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

The brain upon which my experiences have been written is not a particularly good one. If their were brain-shows, as there are cat and dog shows, I doubt if it would get even a third class prize.

In all the round world there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses.

Advertising is legalized lying.

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

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.