A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.

We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged class.

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

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.