I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.

No politician is ever benefited by saving money; it is spending it that makes him.

Democracy turns upon and devours itself. Universal suffrage, in theory the palladium of our liberties, becomes the assurance of our slavery. And that slavery will grow more and more abject and ignoble as the differential birth rate, the deliberate encouragement of mendicancy and the failure of popular education produce a larger and larger mass of prehensile half-wits, and so make the demagogues more and more secure.

In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished.

A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.

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

The highfalutin aims of democracy, whether real or imaginary, are always assumed to be identical with its achievements. This, of course, is sheer hallucination. Not one of those aims, not even the aim of giving every adult a vote, has been realized. It has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.