All progress means war with society.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

I don't. I look my age; and I am my age. It is the other people who look older than they are. What can you expect from people who eat corpses and drink spirits?

Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.

Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse.

The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy postulates have yet been ascertained.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.