Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.

America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home.

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

Man is the only animal that deals in that atorcity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind.

What do you think of the human mind? I mean, in case you think there is a human mind.

Benefit of clergy: Half-rate on the railroad.

Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, & those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied with drink.