Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

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.

Change is not progress.

Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted

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

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.

When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.

There is no idea so stupid that you can't find a professor who will believe it.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who can think things out for himself.