The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, "The trouble with this country is....".

Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn "reasonable" and become your enemies, one quarter are afraid to speak, and on….

Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag..

You have more people that love you than you know..

I must say I'm not very fond of oratory that's so full of energy it hasn't any room for facts..

Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it, God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobey….

Life is hard and astonishingly complicated.... No one great reform will make it easy. Most of us who work -- or want to work -- will always have trou….

Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead..

Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on..

When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag..

In everything was the spirit of children's play - not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and ….

Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life's dark clouds..

It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write..

Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil ju….

Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments..

Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics! I've heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I've ….

I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservat….

I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of seeing just a few people able to be ind….

The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it..

There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and si….

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country..