It is a peculiarity of the American mind that it regards any excursion into the truth as an adventure into cynicism.

When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible.

Liberty is not for these slaves; I do not advocate inflicting it against their conscience. On the contrary, I am strongly in favor of letting them crawl and grovel all they please before whatever fraud or combination of frauds they choose to venerate...Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer.

The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.

The truth, indeed, is something that mankind, for some mysterious reason, instinctively dislikes. Every man who tries to tell it is unpopular, and even when, by the sheer strength of his case, he prevails, he is put down as a scoundrel.

The other day a dog peed on me. A bad sign.