What I got in Sunday school ... was simply a firm conviction that the Christian faith was full of palpable absurdities, and the Christian God preposterous.... The act of worship, as carried on by Christians, seems to me to be debasing rather than ennobling. It involves groveling before a being who, if he really exists, deserves to be denounced instead of respected.

I have long been convinced that the idea of liberty is abhorrent to most human beings. What they want is security, not freedom. Thus it seldom causes any public indignation when an enterprising tyrant claps down on one of his enemies. To most men it seems a natural proceeding.

A Puritan is someone who is desperately afraid that, somewhere, someone might be having a good time.

Pedagogues: More than any other class of blind leaders of the blind they are responsible for the degrading standardization which now afflicts the American people.

The war on privilege will never end. Its next grat campaign will be against the special privileges of the underprivileged.

What ass first let loose the doctrine that the suffrage is a high boon and voting a noble privilege?

[A formula for answering controversial letters -- without even reading the letters:] Dear Sir (or Madame): You may be right.