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If you take a dog which is starving and feed him and make him prosperous, that dog will not bite you. This is the primary difference between a dog and a man.

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Genius is of no country.

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Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

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Life is either always a tight-rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight-rope.

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The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animals.

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Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

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No normal man ever fell in love after thirty when the kidneys begin to disintegrate.

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The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent.

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Was all this bloodshed and deceit - from Columbus to Cortes, Pizarro the Puritans - a necessity for the human race to progress from savagery to civilization? Was Morison right in burying the story of genocide inside a more important story of human progress? Perhaps a persuasive argument can be made - as it was made by Stalin when he killed pesants for industrial progress in the Soviet Union, as it was made by Churchill explaining the bombings of Dresden and Hamburg, and Truman explaining Hiroshima. But how can the judgement be made if the benefits and losses cannot be balanced because the losses are either unmentioned or mentioned quickly?

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Son, in war times it is not safe to think unless one travels with the mob.

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