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- If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be ineligible for any office of trust in the United States.
- I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who…
- It is difficult to imagine anyone having any real hopes for the human race in the face of the fact that the great majority of…
- Two simple principles lie at the bottom of the whole matter, and they may be precipitated into two rules. The first is that, when there…
- Liberty is not for these slaves; I do not advocate inflicting it against their conscience. On the contrary, I am strongly in favor of letting…
- It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life…
- An author, like any other so-called artist, is a man in whom the normal vanity of all men is so vastly exaggerated that he finds…
- The truth is that the scientific value of Polar exploration is greatly exaggerated. The thing that takes men on such hazardous trips is really not…
- The movies today are too rich to have any room for genuine artists. They produce a few passable craftsmen, but no artists. Can you imagine…
- When we appropriate money from the public funds to pay for vaccinating a horde of negroes, we do not do it because we have any…
- If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be barred from any public office in the United States and the families of…
- A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century.
- It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone - that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more than any man…
- Probably the worst thing that has happened in America in my time is the decay of confidence in the courts. No one can be sure…
- People constantly speak of 'the government' doing this or that, as they might speak of God doing it. But the government is really nothing but…
- There's really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.
- The time must come inevitably when mankind shall surmount the imbecility of religion, as it has surmounted the imbecility of religion's ally, magic. It is…
- The Jews could be put down very plausibly as the most unpleasant race ever heard of. As commonly encountered they lack any of the qualities…
- The fact is that liberty, in any true sense, is a concept that lies quite beyond the reach of the inferior man's mind. And no…
- There is, in fact, no reason to believe that any given natural phenomenon, however marvelous it may seem today, will remain forever inexplicable. Soon or…
- Save among politicians it is no longer necessary for any educated American to profess belief in Thirteenth Century ideas
- There is, in fact, nothing about religious opinions that entitles them to any more respect than other opinions get. On the contrary, they tend to…
- A man who is an agnostic by inheritance, so that he doesn't remember any time that he wasn't, has almost no hatred for the religious.
- There is no possibility whatsoever of reconciling science and theology, at least in Christendom. Either Jesus arose from the dead or He didn't. If he…
- Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies, and every one knows it who has ever given any sober reflection to the matter.
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