Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility..

If I were dead and buried And I heard your voice, Beneath the sod My heart of dust Would still rejoice..

There are plenty of laws to protect guys' money even in war time but there's nothing on the books says a man's life's his own..

Then there was this freedom the little guys were always getting killed for. Was it freedom from another country? Freedom from work or disease or deat….

Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they c….

The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving..

When one man says, “No, I won’t,” Rome begins to fear..

Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to be brought out an….

The chief internal enemies of any state are not spies nor saboteurs nor the paid agents of foreign governments. They are, on the contrary, those myri….

Hickory dickory dock my daddy’s nuts from shell shock. Humpty dumpty thought he was wise till gas came along and burned out his eyes. A dillar a doll….

Have you ever been up in your plane at night, alone, somewhere, 20,000 feet above the ocean?... Did you ever hear music up there?... It's the music a….

The blacklist was a time of evil...no one on either side who survived it came through untouched by evil...[Looking] back on this time...it will do no….

A man doesn't say I will starve myself to death to keep from starving, or that he'd spend all of his money to save money. Why should he be willing to….

One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one.

A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage c….

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular gift in that. Democracy isn't a….

This blacklisting is going to collapse because it is rotten, immoral and illegal. I am one day going to be working openly in the motion picture indus….

Bankers, nepotists, contracts and talkies: on four fingers one may count the leeches which have sucked a young and vigorous industry into paresis..

Numbers have dehumanized us. Over breakfast coffee we read of 40,000 American dead in Vietnam. Instead of vomiting, we reach for the toast. Our morni….

Nothing is bigger than life. There's nothing noble in death. What's noble about never seeing the sunshine again? What's noble about having your legs ….

It will come with a rush and a roar and a shudder. It will come howling and laughing and shrieking and moaning. It will come so fast you can’t help y….