High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts.

No matter whether the Constitution follows the flag or not, the Supreme Court follows the election returns.

To most people a savage nation is wan that doesn't wear oncomf'rtable clothes.

Freedom is like drink. If you take any at all, you might as well take enough to make you happy for a while.

Politics ain't beanbag: 'tis a man's game, and women, children 'n' pro-hy-bitionists had best stay out of it.

It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off from the angels.

It [Thanksgiving] was founded by the Puritans to give thanks for bein' preserved from the Indians, an' we keep it to give thanks we are preserved from the Puritans.