I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
God is a comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.
Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong and that 99% of them are wrong.
No matter how happily a woman may be married it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes she were not.
War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
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.
One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.
The double standard of morality will survive in this world so long as the woman whose husband has been lured away is favoured with the sympathetic tears of other women and a man whose wife has made o...
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
A cynic is a man who when he smells flowers looks around for a coffin.
The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.