The only really respectable Protestants are the fundamentalists. Unfortunately, they are also palpable idiots.

The seasick passenger on an ocean liner detests the good sailor who stalks past him 265 times a day grandly smoking a large, greasy cigar. In precisely the same way the democrat hates the man who is having a better time in the world. This is the origin of democracy. It is also the origin of Puritanism.

Nature abhors a moron.

The only way to success in American public life lies in flattering and kowtowing to the mob

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong.

The most popular man under a democracy is not the most democratic man, but the most despotic man. The common folk delight in the exactions of such a man. They like him to boss them. Their natural gait is the goose step.

You come into the world with nothing, and the purpose of your life is to make something out of nothing.