Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions.

Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it than the British Raj tolerated suttee in India. Every civilized authority must draw a line between the tolerable and the intolerable.

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.

I can't control what life did to me, but I can control how I react. Therein lies the difference.

My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.