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

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

The art of writing, like the art of love, runs all the way from a kind of routine hard to distinguish from piling bricks to a kind of frenzy closely related to delirium tremens.

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

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.

Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies, and every one knows it who has ever given any sober reflection to the matter.

Clergyman: A ticket speculator outside the gates of Heaven.