The effect of every sort of New Deal is to increase and prosper the criminal class. It teaches precisely what all professional criminals believe, to wit, that, it is neither virtuous nor necessary to suffer and to do without.

No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as My Ántonia.

The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.

Immortality is the condition of a dead man who doesn't believe he is dead

I have long been convinced that the idea of liberty is abhorrent to most human beings. What they want is security, not freedom. Thus it seldom causes any public indignation when an enterprising tyrant claps down on one of his enemies. To most men it seems a natural proceeding.

The so-called religious organizations which now lead the war against the teaching of evolution are nothing more, at bottom, than conspiracies of the inferior man against his betters.

Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted