“Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.”

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”

“Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.”

“There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.”

“We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.”

“Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions--I say the most licentious of human institutions: that is the secret of its popularity.And a woman seeking a husband is the most unscrupulous of all the beasts of prey. The confusion of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.”

“Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.”