America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.
When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.
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.
A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.
I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician