We have got to accept Big Government for the duration-for neither an offensive nor a defensive war can be waged, given our present government skills, except through the instrument of a totalitarian bureaucracy within our shores. … And if they deem Soviet power a menace to our freedom (as I happen to), they will have to support large armies and air forces, atomic energy, central intelligence, war production boards, and the attendant centralization of power in Washington-even with Truman at the reins of it all.

Only government can cause inflation, preserve monopoly, and punish enterprise.

If Bach is not in Heaven, I am not going!

Everything I do and say and the way I do and say it annoys me.

I had much more fun criticizing than praising.

Did you know that forty percent of the words used by Shakespeare were used by him only once?

Self-control is one of the most exhilarating of pleasures.