When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental - men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost... All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre.

Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.

If what I may believe - about gall-stones, the Constitution, castor oil, or God - is conditioned by law, then I am not a free man.

If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

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

Evil: That which one believes of others. It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake

Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies, and every one knows it who has ever given any sober reflection to the matter.