I drink exactly as much as I want, and one drink more.
The sort of man who likes to spend his time watching a cage of monkeys chase one another, or a lion gnaw its tail, or a lizard catch flies, is precisely the sort of man whose mental weakness should be combated at the public expense, not fostered.
Courtroom : A place where Jesus Christ and Judas Iscariot would be equals, with the betting odds favoring Judas.
All government, of course, is against liberty.
Elections are futures markets in stolen property.
Is it hot in the rolling mill? Are the hours long? Is $15 a day not enough? Then escape is easy. Simply throw up your job, spit on your hands, and write another “Rosenkavailer.”
The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated.
What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.
Morality is nothing but a struggle for safety.
Jealousy is a keen observer, but looks for all the wrong signs.
Confidence: The feeling that makes one believe a man, even when one knows that one would lie in his place.
I am against slavery simply because I dislike slaves.
The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science that smiles in your face while it picks your pocket.
The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.
Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies, and every one knows it who has ever given any sober reflection to the matter.
One smart reader is worth a thousand boneheads.
A living language is like a man suffering incessantly from small hemorrhages, and what it needs above all else is constant transactions of new blood from other tongues. The day the gates go up, that day it begins to die.
The two main ideas that run through all of my writing, whether it be literary criticism or political polemic are these: I am strong in favor of liberty and I hate fraud.
If there were only three women left in the world, two of them would immediately convene a court-martial to try the other one.
Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality.