Silence alone is respectable and respected. I believe God to be silence.

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!

The world is coming to an end in 1950.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

The great word Evolution had not yet, in 1860, made a new religion of history, but the old religion had preached the same doctrinefor a thousand years without finding in the entire history of Rome anything but flat contradiction.

[P]hilosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.