Liberty is never unalienable, it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes.

Never encourage a man to cook breakfast; it cause him to wonder if women are necessary.

From the strictest humanitarian viewpoint, any attempt to stop the processes by which over crowded cities purge themselves is not a kindness.

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudointellectual masturbation . . . whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.