Friendship is a common belief in the same fallacies, mountebanks and hobgoblins.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

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.

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

Don’t be an interpreter of reality, be a visionary. Don’t think about it, see it!

The greatest loss lies in our inability to accept loss.

Before the use of asteroids, the only significators of the feminine in traditional chart interpretation were the Moon and Venus.

Let us respect gray hairs especially our own.

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Communism has been the greatest and bloodiest illusion that humanity ever bore.

The outgrowth of conservation, the inevitable result, is national efficiency

It was a good opportunity to show the Reds the guidelines on the catwalk.

God's mercies are new every morning. Receive them.

Memories just get richer with time.