Change is not progress.

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one's own ignorance.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

An idealist notices that roses smell better than cabbage and concludes that it will also make better soup.

The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.

Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

In every woman's life, there is one real and consuming love. But very few women guess which one it is.

The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.

Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted

When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.

Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.