Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next. Well, what of it? The first one is at least disposed of.

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

A gentlemen is one who never strikes a woman without provocation.

Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

No one in this world, so far as I know--and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me--has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has any one ever lost public office thereby. The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases, to read and write, it is assumed that they have ideas in their heads, and an appetite for more. This assumption is folly. They dislike ideas, for ideas make them uncomfortable.

Religion is a conceited effort to deny the most obvious realities.