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

The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.

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

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

If you mean by capitalism the God-given right of a few big corporations to make all the decisions that will affect millions of workers and consumers and to exclude everyone else from discussing and examining those decisions, then the unions are threatening capitalism.

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

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.