Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.

When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do, that is law, order, and morals.

Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.

A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

The reasonable man will adjust to the demands of his environment. The unreasonable man expects his environment to adjust to his own needs. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.