Every American election summons the individual voter to weigh the past against the future.

There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.

Politics in America is the binding secular religion.

For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority.

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he’s nobody’s friend.