To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment.

Popularity--The capacity for listening sympathetically when men boast of their wives and women complain of their husbands.

Nine out of ten Americans are actually monarchists at bottom. The fact is proved by their high suseptibility to political claims by president's sons and other relatives, usually nonentities.

The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party of bandits

The believing mind is externally impervious to evidence. The most that can be accomplished with it is to induce it to substitute one delusion for another. It rejects all overt evidence as wicked.

The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.

A sound American is simply one who has put out of his mind all doubts and questionings, and who accepts instantly, and as incontrovertible gospel, the whole body of official doctrine of his day, whatever it may be and no matter how often it may change. The instant he challenges it, no matter how timorously and academically, he ceases by that much to be a loyal and creditable citizen of the republic.