A 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.

It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him.

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.

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

Any experience deeply felt makes some men better and some men worse. When it has ended, they share nothing but the recollection of a commitment in which each was tested and to some degree found wanting. [...] The consequences of the journey change the voyager so much more than the embarking or the arrival.

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

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