When I hear artists or authors making fun of businessmen, I think of a regiment in which the band makes fun of the cooks.

Every complex problem has a simple solution that doesn't work.

If there had been any formidable body of cannibals in the country, Harry Truman would have promised to provide them with free missionaries fattened at the taxpayer's expense.

All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.

I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious.

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

When a woman says she won't, it's a good sign that she will. And when she says she will, it is an even better sign.