Religion is the opium of the people translated from the German Die Religion ... ist das Opium des Volkessometimes misquoted as opiate of the people.

Philosophy is to science as masturbation is to sex.

Is it a misfortune that magnificent California was seized from the lazy Mexicans who did not know what to do with it.

Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, the army and the court, in short, for the whole apparatus of the executive power. Strong government and heavy taxes are identical.

I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents.

Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough. To his housekeeper, who urged him to tell her his last words so she could write them down for posterity.

A nation that enslaves another forges its own chains.