We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

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.

You obviously don't have my soul or you wouldn't be trying to make deals.

Don't let the Dogma of men to interfere with your Destiny

We hunger in earnest for that which we cannot consume.

It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.

We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.

Everyone should know--there's no such thing as a decent human being. It's just an illusion. And when it's gone, it's really gone.

I'm trying to grow. I don't want to stay on the same page.

Chic is nothing but the right nothing.

Let us not wonder if something happens which never was before, or if something doth not appear among us with which the ancients were acquainted.

To this day we seem to act in the world as though we know what's right for everybody.