A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man.

There comes a day of public ceremonial, and a chance to make a speech.... A million voters with IQs below 60 have their ears glued to the radio. It takes four days' hard work to concoct a speech without a sensible word in it. Next a dam must be opened somewhere. Four dry Senators get drunk and make a painful scene. The Presidential automobile runs over a dog. It rains.

A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them.

Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.

Christian - One who is willing to serve three Gods, but draws the line at one wife.

A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illusion.

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.