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

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

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.

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 critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.

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

Men very seldom change, try though we will, beneath the shifts of exterior doctrine, our hearts so often remain what they were.