I will not cede more power to the state. I will not willingly cede more power to anyone, not to the state, not to General Motors, not to the CIO. I will hoard my power like a miser, resisting every effort to drain it away from me. I will then use my power, as I see fit. I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arived at yesterday at the voting booth. That is a program of sorts, is it not? It is certainly program enough to keep conservatives busy, and Liberals at bay. And the nation free.

...following Mrs. Roosevelt in search of irrationality was like following a burning fuse in search of an explosive.

Some of my instincts are reprehensible.

Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them

A relatively small and eternally quarrelsome country in Western Europe, fountainhead of rationalist political manias, militarily impotent, historically inglorious during the past century, democratically bankrupt, Communist-infiltrated from top to bottom.

History is but the polemics of the victor.

The police can't use clubs or gas or dogs. I suppose they will have to use poison ivy.