A man who always obeys the law is even stupider than one who breaks it every chance.
A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it. It keeps him upright.
Age is not an accomplishment, and youth is not a sin.
Be a pessimist and you will hardly ever be wrong.
Censorship is never logical but, like cancer, it is dangerous to ignore it when it shows up.
History is never surprising--after it happens.
I think perhaps of all the things a police state can do to its citizens, distorting history is possibly the most pernicious.
Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.
No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law. Nor does he feel guilt over breaking it.
Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong--but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong.
The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed.
There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.
There is nothing in this world so permanent as a temporary emergency.
This Universe never did make sense; I suspect that it was built on government contract.
