Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.

Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.

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.

You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete that monument is to put on its pedestal the inscription written by Dante on the gate of hell: All hope abandon ye who enter here.

Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals

English is the easiest language to speak badly.