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

The physical business of writing is unpleasant to me, but the psychic satisfaction of discharging bad ideas in worse English makes me forget it.

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.

Capitalism under democracy has a further advantage: its enemies, even when it is attacked, are scattered and weak, and it is usually easily able to array one half of them against the other half, and thus dispose of both.

Without a doubt there are women who would vote intelligently. There are also men who knit socks beautifully.

What chiefly distinguishes the daily press is its incurable fear of ideas, its constant effort to evade the discussion of fundamentals by translating all issues into a few elemental fears, its incessant reduction of all reflection to mere emotion.

Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love.