All government is, in its essence, organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious and well-disposed man.

The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés.

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.

The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in self- reliance. He is led no longer by Davy Crocketts; he is led by cheer leaders, press agents, word mongers, uplifters.

The longest sentence you can form with two words is: I do.

Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage.

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