One smart reader is worth a thousand boneheads.

The intelligent, like the unintelligent, are responsive to propaganda.

The typical lawmaker of today is a man wholly devoid of principle - a mere counter in a grotesque and knavish game. If the right pressure could be applied to him, he would be cheerfully in favor of polygamy, astrology or cannibalism.

The war on privilege will never end. Its next grat campaign will be against the special privileges of the underprivileged.

The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy.

Has the art of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid, obscene, and low down, andits salient virtuosi a gang of unmitigated scoundrels? Then let us not forget its high capacity to soothe and tickle the midriff, its incomparable services as a maker of entertainment.

Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer.