A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.

Small wars are always teetering on the brink of becoming big ones.

America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner.

Some of the more fatuous flag-waving Americans are in danger of forgetting that you can't extract gratitude as you would extract a tooth; that unless friendship is freely given, it means nothing and less than nothing.

The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.

The Russians train; they do not dare educate.

American capitalism has been both overpraised and overindicted. It is neither the Plumed Knight nor the monstrous Robber Baron.