Immortality is the condition of a dead man who doesn't believe he is dead

No form of liberty is worth a darn [sic] which doesn't give us the right to do wrong now and then.

For me to go into politics would be like sending a virgin into a house of ill-repute.

[Referring to FDR] If he became convinced tomorrow that coming out for cannibalism would get him the votes he needs so sorely, he would begin fattening a missionary in the White House yard come Wednesday.

It is not a sign of communal well-being when men turn to their government to execute all their business for them, but rather a sign of decay, as in the United States today. The state, indeed, is but one of the devices that a really healthy community sets up to manage its affairs.

Save among politicians it is no longer necessary for any educated American to profess belief in Thirteenth Century ideas

Christian endeavor is notoriously hard on female pulchritude.