Law and its instrument, government, are necessary to the peace and safety of all of us, but all of us, unless we live the lives of mud turtles, frequ….

Government today is growing too strong to be safe. There are no longer any citizens in the world there are only subjects. They work day in and day ou….

The Gettysburg Adress has been included, of late, in several anthologies of poetry. It actually meets the major requirement of all poetry: It is a me….

The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth... Liberty is not a th….

...no man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the sta….

Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God in a manly way and say, Sir, I made an honest mistake..

The common man knows exactly what he wants...and deserves to get it good and hard..

Syllogisms а la mode - If you are against labor racketeers, then you are against the working man. If you are against demagogues, then you are against….

A man of active and resilient mind outwears his friendships just as certainly as he outwears his love affairs, his politics and his epistemology..

The fact is that liberty, in any true sense, is a concept that lies quite beyond the reach of the inferior man's mind. And no wonder, for genuine lib….

The first Rotarian was the first man to call John the Baptist Jack..

The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible..

There are some politicians who, if their constituents were cannibals, would promise them missionaries in every pot..

If a sense of duty tortures a man, it also enables him to achieve prodigies..

The believing mind is externally impervious to evidence. The most that can be accomplished with it is to induce it to substitute one delusion for ano….

It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world, or to ladle out its normal doses of bad medicine and wor….

The townspeople are morons, yokels, peasants and genus homo boobiensis...surrounded by gaping primates from the upland vallies..

The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him..

Voting is simply a way of determining which side is the stronger without putting it to the test of fighting..

No politician is ever benefited by saving money; it is spending it that makes him..

The most common of all follies is to believe in the palpably untrue..