Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.

The objection to a Communist always resolves itself into the fact that he is not a gentleman.

The difference between the smartest dog and the stupidest man - say a Tennessee Holy Roller - is really very small.

It is Hell, of course, that makes priests powerful, not Heaven, for after thousands of years of so-called civilization fear remains the one common denominator of mankind

After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.

Religion is a conceited effort to deny the most obvious realities.

If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.