Unionism seldom, if ever, uses such power as it has to insure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguarding bad work.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. H. L.

Very few authors are able to do actual writing for more than three hours a day. In fact, a good many very successful ones average no more than an hour.

Voting is simply a way of determining which side is the stronger without putting it to the test of fighting.

War may make a fool of man, but it by no means degrades him; on the contrary, it tends to exalt him, and its net effects are much like those of motherhood on women.

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebums and smaller adrenal glands. H. L.

Wealth is any income that is at least 100 dollars a year more than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.

What democracy needs most of all is a party that will separate the good that is in it theoretically from the evils that beset it practically, and then try to erect that good into a workable system.

What is too often forgotten is that nature obviously intends the botched to die, and that every interference with that benign process is full of dangers.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.