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.
Murray KemptonA revolution requires of its leaders a record of unbroken infallibility; if they do not possess it, they are expected to invent it.
Murray KemptonA man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things.
Murray Kempton