Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat.

Democracy, as has been said of Christianity, has never really been tried.

Sanely applied advertising could remake the world.

The violation of some laws is a normal part of the behavior of every citizen.

Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.

I sympathize the first, the direct and single-minded attack [Red Revolution]. I believe it to have been necessary and inevitable in Russia. It may someday be inevitable in this country [United States of America]. I am not seriously alarmed by the sufferings of the creditor class, the troubles which the church is bound to encounter, the restrictions on certain kinds of freedom which must result, nor even by the bloodshed of the transition period. A better economic order is worth a little bloodshed.

The decline is in paper values, not in tangible goods and services...America is now in the eighth year of prosperity as commercially defined. The former great periods of prosperity in America averaged eleven years. On this basis we now have three more years to go before the tailspin.