It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

In serving his vision of the truth, the artist best serves his nation.

In that case, there is no time to lose. Plant it this afternoon!

By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education.... From television, the child will have learned how to pick a lock, commit a fairly elaborate bank holdup, prevent wetness all day long, get the laundry twice as white, and kill people with a variety of sophisticated armaments.

I see no magic in tax dollars which are sent to Washington and then returned. I abhor the waste and incompetence of large-scale federal bureaucracies in this administration as well as in others. I do not favor state compulsion when voluntary individual effort can do the job and do it well.

I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.