As an organized political group, the Communists have done nothing to damage our society a fraction as much as what their enemies have done in the name of defending us against subversion.

To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.

Every social war is a battle between the very few on both sides who care and who fire their shots across a crowd of spectators.

There are things a man must not do even to save a nation.

The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by a man incapable of it.

No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.

By adherence to a special set of rules, the child of the shabby-genteel can sometimes leap across the time which has passed by his family and function in the real world without doing violence to the hopes his mother held out for him. But those who cannot live within this pattern are the freaks and poets, and they travel a different road to peace.