If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say : Let the damned thing go down the drain!

Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.

Anyone who can worship a trinity and insist that his religion is a monotheism can believe anything.

The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche.

...revolutions are not won by enlisting the masses. Revolution is a science for the few who are competent to practice it. It depends on correct organisation and above all, on communications.

He's as weird as snake's suspenders but sweet as a stolen kiss, too.

Anyone who clings to the historically untrue-and thoroughly immoral-doctrine that, 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedom.