Christian endeavor is notoriously hard on female pulchritude.

No politician is ever benefited by saving money; it is spending it that makes him.

The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.

Of government, at least in democratic states, it may be said briefly that it is an agency engaged wholesale, and as a matter of solemn duty, in the performance of acts which all self-respecting individuals refrain from as a matter of common decency.

I know of no existing nation that deserves to live, and I know of very few individuals.

A government at bottom is nothing more than a group of men, and as a practical matter most of them are inferior men. ... Yet these nonentities, by the intellectual laziness of men in general ... are generally obeyed as a matter of duty (and) assumed to have a kind of wisdom that is superior to ordinary wisdom.

Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again.