A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it

The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality

People will believe what they want to believe

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.