It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts.

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.

The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices. The physician does not preach repentance; he offers absolution.

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.

Unsuccessful candidates for the Presidency should be quietly hanged as a matter of public sanitation and decorum.

The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious.