What fetched me instantly (and thousands of other newcomers with me) was the subtle but unmistakable sense of escape from the United States..

A dull, dark, depressing day in Winter: the whole world looks like a Methodist church at Wednesday night prayer meeting..

Life may not be exactly pleasant, but it is at least not dull. Heave yourself into Hell today, and you may miss, tomorrow or next day, another Scopes….

Liberty is of small value to the lower third of humanity. They greatly prefer security, which means protection by some class above them. They are alw….

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl..

The scent of frying astronomers long ago ceased to ascend to Yahweh..

A woman wishes to mother a man simply because she sees into his helplessness, his need of an amiable environment, his touching self-delusion..

Elections are futures markets in stolen property..

The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of governmen….

There are some people who read too much: The bibliobibuli..

Once a woman passes a certain point in intelligence she finds it almost impossible to get a husband: she simply cannot go on listening without snicke….

Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are once in a bl….

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them..

It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin..

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone..

The American people, I am convinced, really detest free speech. At the slightest alarm they are ready and eager to put it down..

The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest….

For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong..

I well recall my horror when I heard for the first time, of a journalist who had laid in a pair of what were then called bicycle pants and taken to g….

Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next. Well, what of it? The first one is at least disposed of..

The only guarantee of the Bill of Rights which continues to have any force and effect is the one prohibiting quartering troops on citizens in time of….