The proper response toward what we occasionally imagine to be democracy, methinks, is to retain one's self-respect by not participating in it. — Fred Reed Copy Share Image
Voting in particular is an embarrassment, being a public display of weak character and low intelligence. Let us face the truth: Democracy, like spitting… — Fred Reed Copy Share Image
“A burro is an ass. A burrow is a hole in the ground. A reporter should know the difference.” — Fred Reed Copy Share Image
The US no longer does decisions. It can neither stop the drug traffic nor legalize it. It can neither win wars nor abandon them,… — Fred Reed Copy Share Image
In fact, the gravest obstacle to the restoration of civilization in North America is universal suffrage. Letting everybody vote makes no sense. Obviously they… — Fred Reed Copy Share Image
Evolution writ large is the belief that a cloud of hydrogen will spontaneously invent extreme-ultraviolet lithography, perform Swan Lake, and write all the books… — Fred Reed Copy Share Image
“I don’t think you lose anything by hallucinating. It’s cheaper than airfare, the destinations more interesting, and I’d rather have a mutant squid on… — Fred Reed Copy Share Image
Wars are the hobbies of half-informed children who have somehow come into possession of the levers of power. — Fred Reed Copy Share Image
I may think that hornets do not have an ideal social organization. But I know better than to poke their nest. — Fred Reed Copy Share Image
Though the Floundering Fathers didn't intend it, we now see that representative government quickly turns into the dictatorship of the proletariat. If you doubt… — Fred Reed Copy Share Image
Kids esteem themselves when they have accomplished something worth esteeming. — Fred Reed Copy Share Image
