The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.

History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.

It is difficult to believe that even idiots ever succumbed to such transparent contradictions, to such gaudy processions of mere counter-words, to so vast and obvious a nonsensicalitysentence after sentence that has no apparent meaning at all--stuff quite as bad as the worst bosh of Warren Gamaliel Harding.

The intellectual heritage of the race belongs to the minority.

[Government's] great contribution to human wisdom...is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.

The sort of man who likes to spend his time watching a cage of monkeys chase one another, or a lion gnaw its tail, or a lizard catch flies, is precisely the sort of man whose mental weakness should be combated at the public expense, not fostered.

Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.