Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.

The believing mind is externally impervious to evidence. The most that can be accomplished with it is to induce it to substitute one delusion for another. It rejects all overt evidence as wicked.

The war on privilege will never end. Its next grat campaign will be against the special privileges of the underprivileged.

In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.

the average man does not want to be free. he simply wants to be safe.

High-toned humanitarians constantly overestimate the sufferings of those they sympathize with.

When I think of anything properly describable as a beautiful idea, it is always in the form of music. I have written and printed probably 10,000,000 words in English but all the same I shall die an inarticulate man, for my best ideas beset me in a language I know only vaguely and speak only as a child.