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

All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling.

The American people, I am convinced, really detest free speech. At the slightest alarm they are ready and eager to put it down.

The common man knows exactly what he wants...and deserves to get it good and hard.

I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government is at least as bad as any of the other forms.

The State doesn't just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.

Philosophy, as the modern world knows it, is only intellectual club-swinging.