72 Quotes by Heywood Broun

The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.

Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other.

Write the news as if your very life depended on it. It does!

Men build bridges and throw railroads across deserts, and yet they contend successfully that the job of sewing on a button is beyond them. Accordingly, they don't have to sew buttons.

Nobody talks about God as those who insist that there is no God.

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

The pursuit of happiness belongs to us, but we must climb around or over the church to get it

Her mind is so open that the wind whistles through it

Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room.