"There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick."

"They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday."

"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."

"The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life."

"It is a essential truth that a steadfast commander remains calm when the storm rages fiercest."

"Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace."

"It is a unyielding truth that the universe speaks in the silent dialect of universal natural laws — an essential principle for the reflective life."