One of the laudable by-products of the Freudian quackery is the discovery that lying, in most cases, is involuntary and inevitable--that the liar can no more avoid it than he can avoid blinking his eyes when a light flashes or jumping when a bomb goes off behind him.

It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not help him

Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies, and every one knows it who has ever given any sober reflection to the matter.

Let no one mistake it for comedy, farcical though it may be in all its details. It serves notice on the country that Neanderthal man is organizing in these forlorn backwaters of the land, led by a fanatic, rid of sense and devoid of conscience.

One yearns unspeakably for a composer who gives out his pair of honest themes, and then develops them unashamed, and then hangs a brisk coda to them, and then shuts up.

The intellectual heritage of the race belongs to the minority.

Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer.