Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer.

Women decide the larger questions of life correctly and quickly, not because they are lucky guessers, not because they are divinely inspired, not because they practise a magic inherited from savagery, but simply and solely because they have sense. They see at a glance what most men could not see with searchlights and telescopes.... They are the supreme realists of the race.

Democracy the domination of unreflective and timorous men, moved in vast herds by mob conditions.

I drink exactly as much as I want, and one drink more.

Since the early days, [the church] has thrown itself violently against every effort to liberate the body and mind of man. It has been, at all times and everywhere, the habitual and incorrigible defender of bad governments, bad laws, bad social theories, bad institutions. It was, for centuries, an apologist for slavery, as it was an apologist for the divine right of kings.

The state remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.

There are no institutions in America: there are only fashions.