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The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out… without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
Husbands never become good they merely become proficient.
There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.