We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are

I don't think it's silly to be sitting in a board room discussing what to do if aliens attacked tomorrow. It's far-fetched, but who would have thought on Sept. 10 that Sept. 11 was a possibility.

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.

With supreme irony, the war to "make the world safe for democracy" ended by leaving democracy more unsafe in the world than at any time since the collapse of the revolutions of 1848

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster.