The only time you have a free press is when you own one.

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

A gentlemen is one who never strikes a woman without provocation.

One seldom discovers a true believer that is worth knowing.

Psychotherapy is the theory that the patient will probably get well anyhow and is certainly a damn fool.

The so-called Philosophy of India is even more blowsy and senseless than the metaphysics of the West. It is at war with everything we know of the workings of the human mind, and with every sound idea formulated by mankind. If it prevailed in the whole modern world we'd still be in the Thirteenth Century; nay, we'd be back among the Egyptians of the pyramid age. Its only coherent contribution to Western thought has been theosophy-and theosophy is as idiotic as Christian Science. It has absolutely nothing to offer a civilized white man.

The argument that capital punishment degrades the state is moonshine, for if that were true then it would degrade the state to send men to war... The state, in truth, is degraded in its very nature: a few butcheries cannot do it any further damage.