The two main ideas that run through all of my writing, whether it be literary criticism or political polemic are these: I am strong in favor of liberty and I hate fraud.

If there were only three women left in the world, two of them would immediately convene a court-martial to try the other one.

The human race is divided into two sharply differentiated and mutually antagonistic classes: a smal l minority that plays with ideas and is capable of taking them in, and a vast majority that finds them painful, and is thus arrayed against them, and against all who have traffic with them.

Evil: That which one believes of others. It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake

I am against slavery simply because I dislike slaves.

In the long run all battles are lost, and so are all wars.

The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads.