No government is ever really in favor of so-called civil rights. It always tries to whittle them down. They are preserved under all governments, insofar as they survive at all, by special classes of fanatics, often highly dubious.

No healthy man, in his secret heart, is content with his destiny. He is tortured by dreams and images as a child is tortured by the thought of a state of existence in which it would live in a candy store and have two stomachs.

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

The scent of frying astronomers long ago ceased to ascend to Yahweh.

At eight or nine, I suppose intelligence is no more than a small spot of light on the floor of a large and murky room.

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

Any man who, having a child or children he can't support, proceeds to have another should be sterilized at once.