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

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.

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.

Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action.

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

Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.

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