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

By adherence to a special set of rules, the child of the shabby-genteel can sometimes leap across the time which has passed by his family and function in the real world without doing violence to the hopes his mother held out for him. But those who cannot live within this pattern are the freaks and poets, and they travel a different road to peace.

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.

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.

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

To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.

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