As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.

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

It's not that I'm so clever, it is that others are so stupid.

I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.

During the last considerable epidemic at the turn of the century, I was a member of the Health Committee of London Borough Council, and I learned how the credit of vaccination is kept up statistically by diagnosing all the revaccinated cases (of smallpox) as pustular eczema, varioloid or what not---except smallpox.