A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician

You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.

The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.

The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.

Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.

A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.