Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash.

Man has no moral instinct. He is not born with moral sense. You were not born with it, I was not - and a puppy has none. We acquire moral sense, when we do, through training, experience, and hard sweat of the mind.

Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.

The police of a state should never be stronger or better armed than the citizenry. An armed citizenry, willing to fight, is the foundation of civil freedom. That's a personal evaluation, of course.

Cats have no sense of humor, they have terribly inflated egos, and they are very touchy.

There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men.

The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were almost always puritanical for a people whose covert behavior tended to be Rabelaisian; its major religions were all Apollonian in varying degrees---its religious revivals were often hysterical in a fashion almost Dionysian.