Writing does for me what giving milk does for a cow.

[Government's] great contribution to human wisdom...is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.

It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they penetrate to every act of the citizen, however secret; it has begun to throw around its operations the high dignity and impeccability of a State religion; its agents become a separate and superior caste, with authority to bind and loose, and their thumbs in every pot. But it still remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.

Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.

Life may not be exactly pleasant, but it is at least not dull. Heave yourself into Hell today, and you may miss, tomorrow or next day, another Scopes trial, or another War to End War, or perchance a rich and buxom widow with all her first husband's clothes. There are always more Hardings hatching. I advocate hanging on as long as possible.

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