You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something.

If I ever mary, it will be on a suddn impulse - as aman shoots himself

The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety absorbed with their mother's milk.

We must be prepared to pay a price for freedom, for no price that is ever asked for it is half the cost of doing without it.

There comes a day of public ceremonial, and a chance to make a speech.... A million voters with IQs below 60 have their ears glued to the radio. It takes four days' hard work to concoct a speech without a sensible word in it. Next a dam must be opened somewhere. Four dry Senators get drunk and make a painful scene. The Presidential automobile runs over a dog. It rains.

The American people, taking one with another, constitute the most timorous, snivelling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goosesteppers ever gathered under one flag in Christendom since the end of the Middle Ages.

The ideal state for a philosopher, indeed, is celibacy tempered by polygamy.