Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted

There is, in fact, no reason to believe that any given natural phenomenon, however marvelous it may seem today, will remain forever inexplicable. Soon or late the laws governing the production of life itself will be discovered in the laboratory, and man may set up business as a creator on his own account. The thing, indeed, is not only conceivable; it is even highly probable.

The only really respectable Protestants are the fundamentalists. Unfortunately, they are also palpable idiots.

Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.

The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in self- reliance. He is led no longer by Davy Crocketts; he is led by cheer leaders, press agents, word mongers, uplifters.

I'm ombibulous. I drink every known alcoholic drink and enjoy them all.

Bridges would not be safer if only people who knew the proper definition of a real number were allowed to design them.