The way for newspapers to meet the competition of radio and television is simply to get out better papers.

Religion, after all, is nothing but an hypothesis framed to account for what is evidentially unaccounted for.

A fool who, after plain warning, persists in dosing himself with dangerous drugs should be free to do so, for his death is a benefit to the race in general.

I can't imagine a genuinely intelligent boy getting much out of college, even out of a good college, save it be a cynical habit of mind.

To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason

Save among politicians it is no longer necessary for any educated American to profess belief in Thirteenth Century ideas

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.