Good government is that which delivers the citizen from being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently-one that relieves him sufficiently from the barbaric business of guarding them to enable him to engage in gentler, more dignified, and more agreeable undertakings.

Jealousy is the theory that some other fellow has just as little taste.

All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them.

Always remember this: If you don't attend the funerals of your friends, they will certainly not attend yours.

The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.

Capital punishment has probably been responsible for a good deal of human progress. The overwhelming majority of those executed were of the sort whose departures for bliss eternal improved the average intelligence and decency of the race.

Liberals have many tails and chase them all.