It is a measure of the Negro's circumstance that, in America, the smallest things usually take him so very long, and that, by the time he wins them, they are no longer little things: they are miracles.

It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

America... an economic system prouder of the distribution of its products than of the products themselves.

The Communists offer one precious, fatal boon: they take away the sense of sin.

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.

A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

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