To large numbers of American citizens life in certain parts of the country becomes intolerably hazardous. They may be seized on any pretext, however ….

Mankind has failed miserably in its effort to devise a rational system of government. [...] The art of government is the exclusive possession of quac….

No man ever quite believes in any other man..

The typical lawmaker of today is a man wholly devoid of principle - a mere counter in a grotesque and knavish game. If the right pressure could be ap….

To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment..

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy..

All talk of winning the people by appealing to their intelligence, of conquering them by impeccable syllogism, is so much moonshine..

I believe in the complete freedom of thought and speech - alike for the humblest man and the mightiest, and in the utmost freedom of conduct that is ….

The way for newspapers to meet the competition of radio and television is simply to get out better papers..

The Public ... demands certainties ... But there are not certainties.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series o….

The state remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men..

There has been no organized effort to keep government down since Jefferson's day. Ever since then the American people have been bolstering up its pow….

The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running flop-houses and distu….

It is difficult to imagine anyone having any real hopes for the human race in the face of the fact that the great majority of men still believe that ….

A large part of altruism, even when it is perfectly honest, is grounded upon the fact that it is uncomfortable to have unhappy people about one..

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated..

The real charm of the United States is that it is the only comic country ever heard of..

I am never much interested in the effects of what I write....I seldom read with any attention the reviews of my...books. Two times out of three I kno….

The art of politics, under democracy, is simply the art of ringing it. Two branches reveal themselves. There is the art of the demagogue, and there i….

The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected. Its evil e….