Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.

I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation.

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.

Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action.

The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea.

The Russians train; they do not dare educate.

We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.