I detest converts almost as much as I do missionaries.

Capitalism under democracy has a further advantage: its enemies, even when it is attacked, are scattered and weak, and it is usually easily able to array one half of them against the other half, and thus dispose of both.

It is almost impossible for an Anglo-Saxon to write of sex without being dirty.

To every complex question there is a simple answer and it is wrong.

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.

Never underestimate the bad taste of the American public

Any defeat, however trivial, may be fatal to a savior of the plain people. They never admire a messiah with a bloody nose.