Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull

The two main ideas that run through all of my writing, whether it be literary criticism or political polemic are these: I am strong in favor of liberty and I hate fraud.

When I hear artists or authors making fun of businessmen, I think of a regiment in which the band makes fun of the cooks.

The State doesn't just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.

Any defeat, however trivial, may be fatal to a savior of the plain people. They never admire a messiah with a bloody nose.

When you sympathize with a married woman you either make two enemies or gain one wife and one friend.

The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.