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 American's conviction that he must be able to look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell is the very essence of the free man's way of life.

It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an axe the desires of men.

A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a big and complicated urban society.

The essential discovery of maturity has little if anything to do with information about the names, the locations, and the sequence of facts; it is the acquiring of a different sense of life, a different kind of intuition about the nature of things.

It is all very well to talk about being the captain of your soul. It is hard, and only a few heroes, saints, and geniuses have been the captains of their souls for any extended period of their lives.

A rational man acting in the real world may be defined as one who decides where he will strike a balance between what he desires and what can be done.