If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe.

Franklin D. Roosevelt is no crusader. He is no tribune of the people. He is no enemy of entrenched privilege. He is a pleasant man who, without any important qualifications for the office, would very much like to be President.

Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to it saying: I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.

There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems.

Lovers who have nothing to do but love each other are not really to be envied; love and nothing else very soon is nothing else.

There is only one purpose to which a whole society can be directed by a deliberate plan. That purpose is war, and there is no other.

The devil is merely a fallen angel, and when God lost Satan he lost one of his best lieutenants.