The only way to success in American public life lies in flattering and kowtowing to the mob

The human race is divided into two sharply differentiated and mutually antagonistic classes: a smal l minority that plays with ideas and is capable of taking them in, and a vast majority that finds them painful, and is thus arrayed against them, and against all who have traffic with them.

If the American people really tire of democracy and want to make a trial of Fascism, I shall be the last person to object. But if that is their mood, then they had better proceed toward their aim by changing the Constitution and not by forgetting it.

The great secret of happiness in love is to be glad that the other fellow married her.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together.

It is almost impossible for an Anglo-Saxon to write of sex without being dirty.

The American people, I am convinced, really detest free speech. At the slightest alarm they are ready and eager to put it down.