The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes being no government at all.

Pastor: One employed by the wicked to prove to them by his example that virtue doesn't pay.

Why do men delight in work? Fundamentally, I suppose, because there is a sense of relief and pleasure in getting something done - a kind of satisfaction not unlike that which a hen enjoys on laying an egg.

Nine out of ten Americans are actually monarchists at bottom. The fact is proved by their high suseptibility to political claims by president's sons and other relatives, usually nonentities.

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

Perhaps the most revolting character that the United States ever produced was the Christian Businessman.

Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.