More people worry themselves to death than bleed to death.

Death is the lot of us all, and the only way that the human race has ever conquered death is by treating it with contempt. By living every golden minute as if one had all Eternity.

Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.

The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same.

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

Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws - always for other fellow. A murky part of us, something we had before we came down out of trees, and failed to shuck when we stood up.

Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth.