The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

If you have seen one city slum you have seen them all.

There is perhaps in every thing of any consequence, secret history, which it would be amusing to know, could we have it authentically communicated.

The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.

I am not a crook.

[Nuclear war] ... may not be desirable.

If you wants to get elected president, you'se got to think up some memoraboble homily so's school kids can be pestered into memorizin' it, even if they don't know what it means.

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.

I love treason but hate a traitor.

France is a country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.