I roll out of my couch every morning with the more agreeable expectations.

the average man does not want to be free. he simply wants to be safe.

Save among politicians it is no longer necessary for any educated American to profess belief in Thirteenth Century ideas

Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.

A skeptic as to all ideas, including especially my own, I have never suffered a pang when the ideas of some other imbecile prevailed.

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

The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.