Voting is simply a way of determining which side is the stronger without putting it to the test of fighting.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs. There is in every living creature an obscure but powerful impulse to active functioning. Life demands to be lived. Inaction, save as a measure of recuperation between bursts of activity, is painful and dangerous to the healthy organism- in fact, it is almost impossible. Only the dying can be really idle.

God is a Republican, and Santa Claus is a Democrat.

The only way to reconcile science and religion is to set up something which is not science and something that is not religion.

The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

[T]he only thing wrong with Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was that it was the South, not the North, that was fighting for a government of the people, by the people and for the people.

The natural tendency of every government is to grow steadily worse-that is, to grow more satisfactory to those who constitute it and less satisfactory to those who support it.