Only foolish people are completely secure.

It takes some skill to spoil a breakfast - even the English can't do it.

Ralph [ Nader] is an old friend of mine, and he does a useful job in displaying a position.

There is little that can be said about most economic goods. A toothbrush does little but clean teeth. Aspirin does little but dull pain. Alcohol is important mostly for making people more or less drunk ... There being so little to be said, much is to be invented.

For the sake of The Progressive, I will say that [Robert] La Follette was relevant, but he was the last.

It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation.

The traveler to the United States will do wellto prepare himself for the class-consciousness of the natives. This differs from the already familiar English version in being more extreme and based more firmly on the conviction that the class to which the speaker belongs is inherently superior to all others.