There has been no organized effort to keep government down since Jefferson's day. Ever since then the American people have been bolstering up its powers and giving it more and more jurisdiction over their affairs. They pay for that folly in increased taxes and diminished liberties.

Democracy must be a sound scheme at bottom, else it would not survive such cruel strains.

The objection to a Communist always resolves itself into the fact that he is not a gentleman.

The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated.

Morality is nothing but a struggle for safety

Of government, at least in democratic states, it may be said briefly that it is an agency engaged wholesale, and as a matter of solemn duty, in the performance of acts which all self-respecting individuals refrain from as a matter of common decency.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin or when he sees silver he looks for the cloud it lines. A wise happy person does the exact opposite.