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

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

The argument that capital punishment degrades the state is moonshine, for if that were true then it would degrade the state to send men to war... The state, in truth, is degraded in its very nature: a few butcheries cannot do it any further damage.

All American wars (except the Civil War) have been fought with the odds overwhelmingly in favor of the Americans. In the history of armed combat such affairs as the Mexican and Spanish-American Wars must be ranked, not as wars at all, but as organized assassinations. In the two World Wars, no American faced a bullet until his adversaries had been worn down by years of fighting others.

Religion, after all, is nothing but an hypothesis framed to account for what is evidentially unaccounted for.

In the main, there are two sorts of books: those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.

For the habitual truth-teller and truth-seeker, indeed, the whole world has very little liking. He is always unpopular.