he thoughtless knowers will call you a red or a communist or a capitalist or some name that expresses their aversion to any mental activity. But somebody must take a chance. The monkeys did who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in the trees making faces at us monkeys who did.

So youve been over into Russia? said Bernard Baruch, and I answered very literally, I have been over into the future and it works.

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

The misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people.

I never heard a Christian sermon preached in a church.

My father, the practical joker, did not care for practical jokes on himself; he did not encourage the practice in me.

You can't control a young horse unless you control yourself.