Perhaps the most revolting character that the United States ever produced was the Christian Businessman.

It is surely no mere coincidence that the land of the emancipated and enthroned woman is also the land of canned soup, of canned pork and beans, of whole meals in cans, and of everything else ready made.

The formula of the argument is simple and familiar: to dispose of a problem all that is necessary is to deny that it exists.

In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.

A Progressive is one who is in favor of more taxes instead of less, more bureaus and jobholders, more paternalism and meddling, more regulation of private affairs and less liberty. In general, he would be inclined to regard the repeal of any tax as outrageous.

Public opinion, in its raw state, gushes out in the immemorial form of the mob's fear. It is piped into central factories, and there it is flavoured and colored and put into cans.

War is the only sport which is genuinely amusing. And it is the only sport which has any intelligible use.