Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.

To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason

Liberty is of small value to the lower third of humanity. They greatly prefer security, which means protection by some class above them. They are always in favor of despots who promise to feed them. The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.

History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.

Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.

The seasick passenger on an ocean liner detests the good sailor who stalks past him 265 times a day grandly smoking a large, greasy cigar. In precisely the same way the democrat hates the man who is having a better time in the world. This is the origin of democracy. It is also the origin of Puritanism.

[Science] must be amoral by its very nature: The minute it begins separating facts into the two categories of good ones and bad ones it ceases to be science and becomes a mere nuisance, like theology.