We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.

It is our knowledge - the things we are sure of - that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from seeing and learning.

The politer the society, the greater the lies it requires.

Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.

In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes.

We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.

The Soviet government sprouted and grew out of the habits, the psychology, and the condition of the Russian people. It fitted them. They understand it.