Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

I believe in only one thing and that thing is human liberty.

The way for newspapers to meet the competition of radio and television is simply to get out better papers.

There is no record in human history of a happy philosopher: they exist only in romantic legend.

All talk of winning the people by appealing to their intelligence, of conquering them by impeccable syllogism, is so much moonshine.

Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.

In the United States...politics is purged of all menace, all sinister quality, all genuine significance, and stuffed with such gorgeous humors, such inordinate farce that one comes to the end of a campaign with one's ribs loose, and ready for King Lear, or a hanging, or a course of medical journals.