Occupation: Journalist Birth: September 12, 1880 Death: January 29, 1956
War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands..
The verdict of a jury is the a priori opinion of that juror who smokes the worst cigars..
Some boys go to college and eventually succeed in getting out. Others go to college and never succeed in getting out. The latter are called professor….
A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground..
History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men..
It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent purpose, p….
All government is, in its essence, organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious….
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man..
I have lived in one house in Baltimore for nearly forty-five years. It has changed in that time, as I have - but somehow it still remains the same. N….
[The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their inte….
No article of faith is proof against the disintegrating effects of increasing information; one might almost describe the acquirement of knowledge as ….
What reason is there for believing that a high death rate, in itself, is undesirable? To my knowledge none whatever. The plain fact is that, if it be….
Osteopath--One who argues that all human ills are caused by the pressure of hard bone upon soft tissue. The proof of his theory isto be found in the ….
To argue that the gaps in knowledge which confront the seeker must be filled, not by patient inquiry, but by intuition or revelation, is simply to gi….
The truth, indeed, is something that mankind, for some mysterious reason, instinctively dislikes. Every man who tries to tell it is unpopular, and ev….
At eight or nine, I suppose intelligence is no more than a small spot of light on the floor of a large and murky room..
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage..
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess..
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under..
There's really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal..
Who will argue that 98.6 Farenheit is the right temperature for man? As for me, I decline to do it. It may be that we are all actually freezing hence….