Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man must develop himself; if he has them forced down him, he will vomit them out.

Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

Democracy is four wolves and a sheep voting on dinner.

The best things in history are accomplished by people who get tired of being shoved around.

A zest for living must include a willingness to die.

When it don’t rain, the roof don’t leak; when it rains, I can’t fix it nohow.

Everybody lies about sex.