“Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”

“Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. H. L. MENCKEN”

“We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.”

“A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.”

“Honor is simply the morality of superior men.”

“It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.”

“Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.”

“Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.”

“I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.”

“All government, of course, is against liberty.”

“The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.”