Perhaps the most revolting character that the United States ever produced was the Christian Businessman.

All American wars (except the Civil War) have been fought with the odds overwhelmingly in favor of the Americans. In the history of armed combat such affairs as the Mexican and Spanish-American Wars must be ranked, not as wars at all, but as organized assassinations. In the two World Wars, no American faced a bullet until his adversaries had been worn down by years of fighting others.

Without a doubt there are women who would vote intelligently. There are also men who knit socks beautifully.

To argue that the gaps in knowledge which confront the seeker must be filled, not by patient inquiry, but by intuition or revelation, is simply to give ignorance a gratuitous and preposterous dignity.

Culture itself is neither education nor law-making: it is an atmosphere and a heritage.

Every complex problem has a simple solution that doesn't work.

After all, the world is not our handiwork, and we are not responsible for what goes on in it, save within very narrow limits.