Law and its instrument, government, are necessary to the peace and safety of all of us, but all of us, unless we live the lives of mud turtles, frequently find them arrayed against us.

Morality is nothing but a struggle for safety

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

The typical lawmaker of today is a man wholly devoid of principle - a mere counter in a grotesque and knavish game. If the right pressure could be applied to him, he would be cheerfully in favor of polygamy, astrology or cannibalism.

Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.

If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that God is a coward, an idiot and a bounder.

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