The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.

Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.

The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man.

The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.

But whenever one meets modern thinkers (as one often does) progressing toward a madhouse, one always finds, on inquiry, that they have just had a splendid escape from another madhouse. Thus, hundreds of people become Socialists, not because they have tried Socialism and found it nice, but because they have tried Individualism and found it particularly nasty.