A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician

To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.

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

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

The Russians train; they do not dare educate.