The value the world sets upon motives is often grossly unjust and inaccurate.

The main thing that every political campaign in the United States demonstrates is that the politicians of all parties, despite their superficial enmities, are really members of one great brotherhood. Their principal, and indeed their sole, object is to collar public office, with all the privileges and profits that go therewith. They achieve this collaring by buying votes with other people's money.

[A formula for answering controversial letters -- without even reading the letters:] Dear Sir (or Madame): You may be right.

The formula of the argument is simple and familiar: to dispose of a problem all that is necessary is to deny that it exists.

To believe that Russia has got rid of the evils of capitalism takes a special kind of mind. It is the same kind of mind that believes that a Holy Roller has got rid of sin.

The great achievement of liberal Protestantism was to make God boring.

There are two kinds of music; German music and bad music.