You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.

To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster.

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. - Beyond the Horizon, 1942.

He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and there making himself unbearably unpleasant. He knew that such twisting of the tiger's tail was dangerous, for he understood the psychopathology of great power.

I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.