The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.
Edward DahlbergThe newspaper has debauched the American until he is a slavish, simpering, and angerless citizen; it has taught him to be a lump mass-man toward fraud, simony, murder, and lunacies more vile than those of Commodus or Caracalla.
Edward DahlbergNo country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.
Edward DahlbergThere is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.
Edward DahlbergWe cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.
Edward DahlbergThe majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll with nothing else to recommend her but a pair of thighs and choice hunkers, and so smart to void their seed that they marry her at once. They imagine they can live in marvelous contentment with handsome feet and ambrosial buttocks. Most men are accredited fools shortly after they leave the womb.
Edward Dahlberg