It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.

To an imagination of any scope the most far reaching form of power is not money, it is the command of ideas

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

It is mere childishness to expect men to believe as their fathers did; that is, if they have any minds of their own. The world is a whole generation older and wiser than when the father was of his son's age.

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society

History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.