The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.

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

It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they penetrate to every act of the citizen, however secret; it has begun to throw around its operations the high dignity and impeccability of a State religion; its agents become a separate and superior caste, with authority to bind and loose, and their thumbs in every pot. But it still remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.

Richard Strauss--Old Home Week in Gomorrah

The main thing that every political campaign in the United States demonstrates is that the politicians of all parties, despite their superficial enmities, are really members of one great brotherhood. Their principal, and indeed their sole, object is to collar public office, with all the privileges and profits that go therewith. They achieve this collaring by buying votes with other people's money.

Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one.

Living with a dog is easy- like living with an idealist.