All talk of winning the people by appealing to their intelligence, of conquering them by impeccable syllogism, is so much moonshine.

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

Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life would become a mere syllogism and hence too metallic to be borne.

I know of no human being who has a better time than an eager and energetic young reporter.

Never drink if you've got any work to do. Never.

Let no one mistake it for comedy, farcical though it may be in all its details. It serves notice on the country that Neanderthal man is organizing in these forlorn backwaters of the land, led by a fanatic, rid of sense and devoid of conscience.

It is only doubt that creates. It is only the minority that counts.