Experience is a poor guide to man, and is seldom followed. What really teaches a man is not experience, but observation.

A free citizen in a free state, it seems to me, has an inalienable right to play with whomsoever he will, so long as he does not disturb the general peace. If any other citizen, offended by the spectacle, makes a pother, then that other citizen, and not the man exercising his inalienable right, should be put down by the police.

The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.

I believe in only one thing and that thing is human liberty.

If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x times y is less than y

Nature abhors a moron.

Man, at his best, remains a sort of one-lunged animal, never completely rounded and perfect, as a cockroach, say, is perfect.