Morality is nothing but a struggle for safety

All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.

I am, in fact, the complete anti-Messiah, and detest converts almost as much as I detest missionaries. My writings, such as they are, have had only one purpose: to attain for H. L. Mencken that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

Whatever the label on the parties, or the war cries issuing from the demagogues who lead them, the practical choice is between the plutocracy on the one side and a rabble of preposterous impossibilists on the other.

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

Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next. Well, what of it? The first one is at least disposed of.

Philadelphia is the most pecksniffian of American cities, and thus probably leads the world.