The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible.

The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.

There are some politicians who, if their constituents were cannibals, would promise them missionaries in every pot.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together.

The Americans are the illegitimate children of the English.

I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government is at least as bad as any of the other forms.

A great literature is thus chiefly the product of doubting and inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation.