Every complex problem has a simple solution that doesn't work.

Unionism, seldom if ever, uses such powers as it has to ensure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguard bad work.

I have little belief in human progress. The human race is incurably idiotic. It will never be happy.

Five years of Prohibition have had, at least, this one benign effect: they have completely disposed of all the favorite arguments of the Prohibitionists. None of the great boons and usufructs that were to follow the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment has come to pass. There is not less drunkenness in the Republic, but more. There is not less crime, but more. There is not less insanity, but more. The cost of government is not smaller, but vastly greater. Respect for law has not increased, but diminished.

Never underestimate the booberie of the booboisie.

Every complex problem has a simple solution that doesn't work.

The worst government is the most moral.