My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.

In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise.

Politicians get their power too late, and I think that he has inherited an impossible situation in which he is ill-equipped to deal.

The great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to it.

I think that President [Dwight] Eisenhower was... did the most marvelous job in the war, not really a military job: a public relations job, and it was essential that there should be a public relations job done in the post that he had.

A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.

I hate government. I hate power. I think that man's existence, insofar as he achieves anything, is to resist power, to minimize power, to devise systems of society in which power is the least exerted.