Decency is not news; it is buried in the obituaries - but it is a force stronger than crime.

Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo.

Almost everything about a human creature is ridiculous, except its ability to suffer bravely and die gallantly for whatever it loves and believes in. The validity of that belief, the appropriateness of that love, is irrelevant; it is the bravery and the gallantry that count.

Patriotism is not sentimental nonsense. Nor something dreamed up by demagogues. Patriotism is as necessary a part of man's evolutionary equipment as are his eyes, as useful to the race as eyes are to the individual.

Logic is a feeble reed, friend.

The lessons of history teach us - if the lessons of history teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.

Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that it is eight times as good as any other method the human race has ever tried.