[Thomas Henry] Huxley, I believe, was the greatest Englishman of the Nineteenth Century—perhaps the greatest Englishman of all time. When one thinks ….

The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés..

Pedagogues: More than any other class of blind leaders of the blind they are responsible for the degrading standardization which now afflicts the Ame….

There is always a sheet of paper. There is always a pen. There is always a way out..

I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and buttermilk. It is American in every chitling and sparerib. It is alive from sno….

No form of liberty is worth a darn [sic] which doesn't give us the right to do wrong now and then..

Those tragic comedians, the Chamber of Commerce red hunters, the Women's Christian Temperance Union smellers, the censors of books, the Klan regulato….

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies..

I have often argued that a poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. I begin to suspect that there may be some truth in it..

Of all the classes of men, I dislike the most those who make their livings by talking - actors, clergymen, politicians, pedagogues, and so on. .... I….

Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright..

The natural tendency of every government is to grow steadily worse-that is, to grow more satisfactory to those who constitute it and less satisfactor….

All the great villainies of history, from the murder of Abel onward, have been perpetrated by sober men, chiefly by Teetotalers..

Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people..

The prophesying business is like writing fugues; it is fatal to every one save the man of absolute genius..

I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in int….

Taxation, for example, is eternally lively; it concerns nine-tenths of us more directly than either smallpox or golf, and has just as much drama in i….

Nature abhors a moron..

On the one hand, we may tell the truth, regardless of consequences, and on the other hand we may mellow it and sophisticate it to make it humane and ….

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt..

Capital punishment has probably been responsible for a good deal of human progress. The overwhelming majority of those executed were of the sort whos….