Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment.

Those who are looking for paradise on Earth should come and see Dubrovnik.

The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.

Nothing can save us from a perpetual headlong fall into a bottomless abyss but a solid footing of dogma; and we no sooner agree to that than we find that the only trustworthy dogma is that there is no dogma.

I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.

The best way to get your point across is to entertain.

It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false doctrine instead of drifting down the midstream of mere ignorance.