“A goose flies by a chart the Royal Geographic Society could not improve.”

“It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the fallopian tubes. Three generations of imbeciles are enough.”

“Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.”

“The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.”

“Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.”

“I believe that there are no innate, intrinsic differences among a human being , a baboon or a grain of sand.”

“I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.”