Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.
Quoted in Celebrity Register, ed. C. Amory, E. Blackwell (1963)
Toleration is not merely a generous byproduct of the American system: it is its essential principle.
Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism.
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
When all think alike, no one thinks very much.
He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.
Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.
I generalized rashly: That is what kills political writing, this absurd pretence that you are delivering a great utterance. You never do. You are just a puzzled man making notes about what you think. You are not building the Pantheon, then why act like a graven image? You are drawing sketches in the sand which the sea will wash away.
After reading a book on politics he didn't like.
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