Clare Boothe Luce

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. . . . It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forebearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that-being what it is-it falls so short of in fact and in deed.

I am for lifting everyone off the social bottom. In fact, I am for doing away with the social bottom altogether.

But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?

Since the birth of our nation, the steady performance of the Marine Corps in fighting America's battles has made it the very symbol of military excellence. The Corps has come to be recognized worldwide as an elite force of fighting men, renowned for their physical endurance, for their high level of obedience, and for the fierce pride they take, as individuals, in the capacity for self discipline.

The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.

The main thing is to get what little happiness there is out of life in this wartorn world because ‘these are the good old days’ now.

Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.

To put a woman on the ticket would challenge the loyalty of women everywhere to their sex, because it would be made to seem that the defeat of the ticket meant the defeat for a hundred years of women's chance to be truly equal with men in politics.

Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes'; They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'

They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.

No matter how their leaders may have tried to skimp on money, no one, not even the politicians, who talked themselves red, white, and blue in the face, skimped on effort.