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

A revolution requires of its leaders a record of unbroken infallibility; if they do not possess it, they are expected to invent it.

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

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.

No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.

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

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