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

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.

The Communists offer one precious, fatal boon: they take away the sense of sin.

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.

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

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

No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.