Those who can't teach - administrate. Those who can't administrate - go into politics..

All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him..

No government is ever really in favor of so-called civil rights. It always tries to whittle them down. They are preserved under all governments, inso….

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents..

To every complex question there is a simple answer and it is wrong..

The worshiper is the father of the gods..

The difference between the smartest dog and the stupidest man - say a Tennessee Holy Roller - is really very small..

If what I may believe - about gall-stones, the Constitution, castor oil, or God - is conditioned by law, then I am not a free man..

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it..

The taboos that I have mentioned are extraordinarily harsh and numerous. They stand around nearly every subject that is genuinely important to man: t….

Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer..

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them..

Jealousy is a keen observer, but looks for all the wrong signs..

I believe that it should be perfectly lawful to print even things that outrage the pruderies and prejudices of the general, so long as any honest min….

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed..

No one hates his job so heartily as a farmer..