God is a Republican, and Santa Claus is a Democrat.

The believing mind is externally impervious to evidence. The most that can be accomplished with it is to induce it to substitute one delusion for another. It rejects all overt evidence as wicked.

The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés.

The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.

Culture itself is neither education nor law-making: it is an atmosphere and a heritage.

The course of the United States in World War II, I said, was dishonest, dishonorable, and ignominious, and the Sunpapers, by supporting Roosevelt's foreign policy, shared in this disgrace.

When I mount the scaffold at last these will be my farewell words to the sheriff: Say what you will against me when I am gone, but don't forget to add, in common justice, that I was never converted to anything.