The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were damned.... Our hymns were loaded with arrogance - self-congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, what hell everybody else would catch come Judgment Day.

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

In terms of morals there is no such thing as ‘state.’ Just men. Individuals. Each responsible for his own acts.

Logic is a feeble reed, friend. "Logic" proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.

Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark.

Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said in any other language.