France believes in armed intervention by America only when the intervention is in France to rescue France from occupation by other powers.

One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed - different plans have to be made. And the kernel here is the acknowledgement of defeat.

Kennedy after all has lots of glamour - Gregory Peck with an atom bomb in his holster.

You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters.

Why does baloney avoid the grinder?

The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens of their thought and sentiments, that I do not desire the company of the majority of the senior class of Vassar.

The largest cultural menace in America is the conformity of the intellectual cliques which, in education as well as the arts, are out to impose upon the nation their modish fads and fallacies, and have nearly succeeded in doing so. In this cultural issue, we are, without reservations, on the side of excellence (rather than "newness") and of honest intellectual combat (rather than conformity).