"Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages."

"Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another."

"Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood."

"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."

"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place."

"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public."

"Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them."

"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."

"Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right."

"We must respect the other fellow's religion,but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart."