When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental - men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost... All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre.

In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.

I believe in only one thing and that thing is human liberty.

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.

One seldom discovers a true believer that is worth knowing.

The Public ... demands certainties ... But there are not certainties

What fetched me instantly (and thousands of other newcomers with me) was the subtle but unmistakable sense of escape from the United States.