The intellectual heritage of the race belongs to the minority.

Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.

The effect of every sort of New Deal is to increase and prosper the criminal class. It teaches precisely what all professional criminals believe, to wit, that, it is neither virtuous nor necessary to suffer and to do without.

The fact is that liberty, in any true sense, is a concept that lies quite beyond the reach of the inferior man's mind. And no wonder, for genuine liberty demands of its votaries a quality he lacks completely, and that is courage. The man who loves it must be willing to fight for it; blood, said Jefferson, is its natural manure. Liberty means self-reliance, it means resolution, it means the capacity for doing without . . . the average man doesn't want to be free. He wants to be safe.

No man ever quite believes in any other man.

Christian - One who is willing to serve three Gods, but draws the line at one wife.

The way for newspapers to meet the competition of radio and television is simply to get out better papers.