Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.

The so-called religious organizations which now lead the war against the teaching of evolution are nothing more, at bottom, than conspiracies of the inferior man against his betters.

The only way for a reporter to look at a politician is down.

No professional politician is ever actually in favor of public economy. It is his implacable enemy, and he knows it. All professional politicians are dedicated wholeheartedly to waste and corruption. They are the enemies of every decent man.

One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.

When you sympathize with a married woman you either make two enemies or gain one wife and one friend.

All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: it's one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him... One of its primary functions is to regiment men by force, to make them as much alike as possible and as dependent upon one another as possible, to search out and combat originality among them.