A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician.

America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man’s ideas it calls him a foreigner.

Somehow life doesn’t always pay off to those who are most insistent.

Science itself is a humanist in the sense that it doesn’t discriminate between human beings, but it is also morally neutral. It is no better or worse than the ethos with and for which it is used.

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there – or failing to get there.

When you are seventeen you aren’t really serious.

A people’s speech is the skin of its culture.

A politician wouldn’t dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician.

Every man has two counties – his own and America.

Some of the more fatuous flag-waving Americans are in danger of forgetting that you can’t extract gratitude as you would extract a tooth; that unless friendship is freely given, it means nothing and less than nothing.