In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.

Both we and the Soviets face the common threat of nuclear destruction and there is no likelihood that either capitalism or communism will survive a nuclear war.

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.

But now, instead of discussion and argument, brute force rises up to the rescue of discomfited error, and crushes truth and right into the dust. 'Might makes r…

There's this old line the wise folks in Washington have that 'it's not the crime, but the cover-up.' But only fools believe that. It's always about the crime. …