War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands..

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man..

A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground..

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess..

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..

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….

All government is, in its essence, organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious….

No article of faith is proof against the disintegrating effects of increasing information; one might almost describe the acquirement of knowledge as ….

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….

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….

The verdict of a jury is the a priori opinion of that juror who smokes the worst cigars..

The only way for a reporter to look at a politician is down..

What ails the truth is that it is mainly uncomfortable, and often dull. The human mind seeks something more amusing, and more caressing..

I can't imagine a genuinely intelligent boy getting much out of college, even out of a good college, save it be a cynical habit of mind..

A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and the truth in front of patriotic passion..

Happiness is peace after strife, the overcoming of difficulties, the feeling of security and well-being. The only really happy folk are married women….

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar..

I know a good many men of great learning-that is, men born with an extraordinary eagerness and capacity to acquire knowledge. One and all, they tell ….

All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to….

Adultery is the application of democracy to love..

All American wars (except the Civil War) have been fought with the odds overwhelmingly in favor of the Americans. In the history of armed combat such….