It doesn’t take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
Honor is simply the morality of superior men.
A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
Temptation is a woman’s weapon and man’s excuse.
Wealth – any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one’s wife’s sister’s husband.
Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner.
The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it’s good-by to the Bill of Rights.
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
The State doesn’t just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.
It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.
A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.