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 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.

There is, it appears, a conspiracy of scientists afoot. Their purpose is to break down religion, propagate immorality, and so reduce mankind to the level of brutes. They are the sworn and sinister agents of Beelzebub, who yearns to conquer the world, and has his eye especially upon Tennessee.]

Women have a hard enough time in this world: telling them the truth would be too cruel.

The worst of marriage is that it makes a woman believe that all men are just as easy to fool.

Whenever a reporter is assigned to cover a Methodist conference, he comes home an atheist.

Kant was probably the worst writer ever heard of on earth before Karl Marx. Some of his ideas were really quite simple, but he always managed to make them seem unintelligible. I hope he is in Hell.