Democracy means that if the doorbell rings in the early hours, it is likely to be the milkman.

If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time a tremendous whack.

Never give in—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—except to convictions of honor and good sense.

A fanatic is someone who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.

[Hitler] must blood his hounds and show them sport, or else, like Actaeon of old, be devoured by them.

He is one of those orators of whom it was well said, ‘Before they get up, they do not know what they are going to say; when they are speaking, they do not know what they are saying; and when they sit down they do not know what they have said.’

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body; it calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

you kill the monster and fling him to the public.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.