He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.

Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by. To be 'intellectual' or 'artistic' or, in their own word, to be 'highbrow,' is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.

It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.

The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, "The trouble with this country is...."

I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We're tired of always deferring hope till the next generation. We're tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers... coax us, 'Be calm! Be patient! Wait! We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.' For ten thousand years they've said that. We want our Utopia now — and we're going to try our hands at it.

When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read.

When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.