The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

I have no right to think for myself. I have no right to think at all.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

It is always the secure who are humble.

It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian.

I still hold. . .that the suburbs ought to be either glorified by romance and religion or else destroyed by fire from heaven, or even by firebrands from the earth.