The legislature, like the executive, has ceased to be even the creature of the people: it is the creature of pressure groups, and most of them, it must be manifest, are of dubious wisdom and even more dubious honesty. Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner. The typical lawmaker of today is a man wholly devoid of principle...

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

It is almost impossible for an Anglo-Saxon to write of sex without being dirty.

The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think.

Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world

Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master.

Haste is of the devil. Slowness is of God.