The Public ... demands certainties ... But there are not certainties

Is it hot in the rolling mill? Are the hours long? Is $15 a day not enough? Then escape is easy. Simply throw up your job, spit on your hands, and write another "Rosenkavailer."

Confidence: The feeling that makes one believe a man, even when one knows that one would lie in his place

Jealousy is a keen observer, but looks for all the wrong signs.

the average man does not want to be free. he simply wants to be safe.

If there had been any formidable body of cannibals in the country, Harry Truman would have promised to provide them with free missionaries fattened at the taxpayer's expense.

[T]here is only one sound argument for democracy, and that is the argument that it is a crime for any man to hold himself out as better than other men, and, above all, a most heinous offense for him to prove it.