"The very thought of the Diety, Is as bright, effulgent daybeams."

"We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all."

"Courage is found in unlikely places."

"Gray hair is God's graffiti."

"There is nothing so asinine that governments will not proclaim it as official doctrine."

"By March 1918, Lenin's Bolshevik regime, then just five months old, had knowingly killed more of its political opponents than Czarist Russia had in the whole preceding century."

"War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel."

"Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see."

"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."

"A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional... values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process."