A skeptic as to all ideas, including especially my own, I have never suffered a pang when the ideas of some other imbecile prevailed.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

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.

Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

Stretched by an idea,    we can aspire to new heights,      new ways of thinking.

If I Could Read The Last Page of My Life....

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.

If I have one vice and I can call it nothing else it is not able to say 'no'.

Can I cut off your head?" "Are you asking for my permission?

By the time I got home at night, my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light.

Being British, I don't really have a way of expressing myself in conversation. Music transcends language.

Without the right attitude, a business with everything going for it will fail.

Men of England! who inheritRights that cost your sires their blood.