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

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

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

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 ….

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….

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..

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….

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….

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

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

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….

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….

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….

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….

Now listen, buddy, there are a few corny ideas you got to get out of your head if you're going to fly an airplane. Most things are just the reverse f….

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….

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….

Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take love. Do you unders….

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