All the great enterprises of the world are run by a few smart men: their aides and associates run down by rapid stages to the level of sheer morons. Everyone knows that this is true of government, but we often forget that it is equally true of private undertakings. In the average great bank, or railroad, or other corporation the burden of management lies upon a small group. The rest are ciphers.

It is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient to exhibit the true; it is also necessary to expose and denounce the false.

He marries best who puts it off until it is too late.

The only way to success in American public life lies in flattering and kowtowing to the mob

Never underestimate the booberie of the booboisie.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.