[A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society.

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

We talk of wild animals, but the wildest animal is man.

In Catholicism, the pint, the pipe and the Cross can all fit together.

It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them.

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .

Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities.