No professional politician is ever actually in favor of public economy. It is his implacable enemy, and he knows it. All professional politicians are dedicated wholeheartedly to waste and corruption. They are the enemies of every decent man.

We must be prepared to pay a price for freedom, for no price that is ever asked for it is half the cost of doing without it.

Genius: the ability to prolong one's childhood.

Has the art of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid, obscene, and low down, andits salient virtuosi a gang of unmitigated scoundrels? Then let us not forget its high capacity to soothe and tickle the midriff, its incomparable services as a maker of entertainment.

I believe that it should be perfectly lawful to print even things that outrage the pruderies and prejudices of the general, so long as any honest minority, however small, wants to read them. The remedy of the majority is not prohibition, but avoidance.

It seems to me that a great university ought to have room in it for men subscribing to every sort of idea that is currently prevalent

Pastor: One employed by the wicked to prove to them by his example that virtue doesn't pay.