"We have always been compelled, and we shall be compelled for many years to come, to be prudent, cautious, staid, sobe…"

"Infancy is not what it is cracked up to be. The child seems happy all the time to the adult, because the adult knows …"

"I have noticed that when chickens quit quarreling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of the…"

"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you."

"A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country."

"No matter how nearly perfect an Almost Perfect State may be, it is not nearly enough perfect unless the individuals w…"

"Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in s…"

"Personally we look forward to an old age of dissipation and indolence and unreverend disrepute. In fifty years we sha…"

"Between the years of ninety-two and a hundred and two, however, we shall be the ribald, useless, drunken, outcast per…"

"We shall know that the Almost Perfect State is here when the kind of old age each person wants is possible to him. Of…"