There is only one justification for having sinned, and that is to be glad of it..

The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes being no governm….

Absence is the dark-room in which lovers develop negatives..

Change is not progress..

Man, without a saving touch of woman in him, is too doltish, too naive and romantic, too easily deluded and lulled to sleep by his imagination to be ….

The worst government is the most moral..

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges..

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time..

When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact ….

And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this unifo….

The main thing that every political campaign in the United States demonstrates is that the politicians of all parties, despite their superficial enmi….

The legislature, like the executive, has ceased to be even the creature of the people: it is the creature of pressure groups, and most of them, it mu….

As if paralyzed by the national fear of ideas, the democratic distrust of whatever strikes beneath the prevailing platitudes, it evades all resolute ….

There is, in fact, no reason to believe that any given natural phenomenon, however marvelous it may seem today, will remain forever inexplicable. Soo….

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too..

When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression..

Five years of Prohibition have had, at least, this one benign effect: they have completely disposed of all the favorite arguments of the Prohibitioni….

One does not arise from such a book as Sister Carrie with a smirk of satisfaction; one leaves it infinitely touched..

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two w….

I never agree with Communists or any other kind of kept men..

I devoured hot-dogs in Baltimore 'way back in 1886, and they were then very far from newfangled...They contained precisely the same rubber, indigesti….