The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.

The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.

Living with a dog is easy- like living with an idealist.

The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process in man, but no matter how violently they differ otherwise they all agree that it has little to do with logic and is not much conditioned by overt facts.

A government at bottom is nothing more than a group of men, and as a practical matter most of them are inferior men. ... Yet these nonentities, by the intellectual laziness of men in general ... are generally obeyed as a matter of duty (and) assumed to have a kind of wisdom that is superior to ordinary wisdom.

The way for newspapers to meet the competition of radio and television is simply to get out better papers.

Taxation, for example, is eternally lively; it concerns nine-tenths of us more directly than either smallpox or golf, and has just as much drama in it; moreover, it has been mellowed and made gay by as many gaudy, preposterous theories