The only really respectable Protestants are the fundamentalists. Unfortunately, they are also palpable idiots.

All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them.

A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century.

[T]he only thing wrong with Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was that it was the South, not the North, that was fighting for a government of the people, by the people and for the people.

The federal [bank deposit] insurance scheme has worked up to now simply and solely because there have been very few bank failures. The next time we have a pestilence of them it will come to grief quickly enough, and if the good banks escape ruin with the bad ones it will be only because the taxpayer foots the bill.

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

Never underestimate the bad taste of the American public