Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural.

I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases.

I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler; I don't like beer.

Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.

A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the government. And, with due respect to these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.