We must be prepared to pay a price for freedom, for no price that is ever asked for it is half the cost of doing without it.

The objection to a Communist always resolves itself into the fact that he is not a gentleman.

The more I think you over, the more it comes home to me what an unmitigated Middle Victorian ass you are!

I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and buttermilk. It is American in every chitling and sparerib. It is alive from snout to tail.

[Government's] great contribution to human wisdom...is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.

One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.

That it should still be necessary, at this late stage in the senility of the human race to argue that women have a fine and fluent intelligence is surely an eloquent proof of the defective observation, incurable prejudice, and general imbecility of their lords and masters.