There is no record in the history of a nation that ever gained anything valuable by being unable to defend itself.

The chief business of the nation, as a nation, is the setting up of heroes, mainly bogus.

There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.

Democracy is grounded upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else even halfwits would argue it to pieces. Its first concern must be to penalize the free play of ideas.

The main thing that every political campaign in the United States demonstrates is that the politicians of all parties, despite their superficial enmities, are really members of one great brotherhood. Their principal, and indeed their sole, object is to collar public office, with all the privileges and profits that go therewith. They achieve this collaring by buying votes with other people's money.

Democracy the domination of unreflective and timorous men, moved in vast herds by mob conditions.

A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century.