The objection to a Communist always resolves itself into the fact that he is not a gentleman.

The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a little more jealous.

Evil is that which one believes of others.

Never argue with a man whose job depends on not being convinced.

We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as something going on in a small minority, perpetually beleaguered in a few walled towns. Now and then the horde of barbarians outside breaks through, and we have an armed effort to halt the process. That is, we have a Reformation, a French Revolution, a war for democracy, a Great Awakening. The minority is decimated and driven to cover. But a few survive- and a few are enough to carry on.

The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.

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