The common man knows exactly what he wants...and deserves to get it good and hard.

Lawyer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation.

The central difficulty lies in the fact that all of the sciences have made such great progress during the last century that they have got quite beyond the reach of man

No reporter of my generation, whatever his genius, ever really rated spats and a walking stick until he had covered both a lynching and a revolution.

It is Hell, of course, that makes priests powerful, not Heaven, for after thousands of years of so-called civilization fear remains the one common denominator of mankind

It is only doubt that creates.

All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.