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

Government, like any other organism, refuses to acquiesce in its own extinction. This refusal, of course, involves the resistance to any effort to diminish its powers and prerogatives.

The truth, indeed, is something that mankind, for some mysterious reason, instinctively dislikes. Every man who tries to tell it is unpopular, and even when, by the sheer strength of his case, he prevails, he is put down as a scoundrel.

Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails.

I can't imagine a genuinely intelligent boy getting much out of college, even out of a good college, save it be a cynical habit of mind.

Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B," "A" is most likely a scoundrel.

As long as you represent me as praising alcohol I shall not complain. It is, I believe, the greatest of human inventions, and by far - much greater than Hell, the radio or the bichloride tablet.