The only way that a government can provide for jobs for all citizens is by deciding what every man should do.

The most common of all follies is to believe in the palpably untrue.

When I hear a man applauded by the mob I always feel a pang of pity for him. All he has to do to be hissed is to live long enough.

Government, like any other organism, refuses to acquiesce in its own extinction. This refusal, of course, involves the resistance to any effort to diminish its powers and prerogatives.

To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment.

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

The worst of marriage is that it makes a woman believe that all men are just as easy to fool.