When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

To reject the word is to reject the human search.

America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.

There is a hate layer of opinion and emotion in America. There will be other McCarthys to come who will be hailed as its heroes.

There are almost no limits to the discoveries of how the human brain operates in illness and health, in sleep and waking and dreaming, in calm and under tension. The question is how far man can put these discoveries to use without using them not for cure but for power.

There are some who become spies for money, or out of vanity and megalomania, or out of ambition, or out of a desire for thrills. But the malady of our time is of those who become spies out of idealism.

The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied.