The world of shabby gentility is like no other; its sacrifices have less logic, its standards are harsher, its relation to reality is dimmer than comfortable property or plain poverty can understand.

A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.

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

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.

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.

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

No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.