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

The Jews fastened their religion upon the Western world, not because it was more reasonable than the religions of their contemporaries - as a matter of fact, it was vastly less reasonable than many of them - but because it was far more poetical.

There are no dull subjects. There are only dull writers.

We suffer most when the White House busts with ideas.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.

One horse-laugh is worth ten-thousand syllogisms.

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.