The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.

Mean spirits under disappointment, like small beer in a thunderstorm, always turn sour

That most delicious of all privileges - spending other people's money

The American intellectuals, in their preoccupation with reality, seem to have forgotten that the real enemy is War rather than imperial Germany. There is work to be done to prevent this war of ours from passing into popular mythology as a holy crusade. What shall we do with leaders who tell us that we go to war in moral spotlessness or who make “democracy” synonymous with a republican form of government?

Never fear growing old; there are many who have never had the privilege

You don't have to have money and privilege to have good manners.