In our culture we make heroes of the men who sit on top of a heap of money, and we pay attention not only to what they say in their field of competence, but to their wisdom on every other question in the world.

The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.

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.

We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.

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

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

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.