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

The fates have a way of demanding of a man that he suffer his greatest moments all by himself; being lone seems as often attendant upon reality as being in company is attendant upon the flight from reality.

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.

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

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.

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.

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.