It is the theory of all modern civilized governments that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen; it is the practice of all of them to limit its exercise, and sometimes very narrowly.

A wealthy man is one who earns $100 a year more than his wife's sister's husband.

Voting is simply a way of determining which side is the stronger without putting it to the test of fighting.

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.

Unsuccessful candidates for the Presidency should be quietly hanged as a matter of public sanitation and decorum.

America's biggest failure is its inability to take comedy seriously.

To the best of my knowledge and belief, the average American newspaper, even of the so-called better sort, is not only quite as bad as Upton Sinclair says it is, but 10 times worse, 10 times as ignorant, 10 times as unfair and tyrannical, 10 times as complaisant and pusillanimous, and 10 times as devious, hypocritical, disingenuous, deceitful, pharisaical, Pecksniffian, fraudulent, slippery, unscrupulous, perfidious, lewd and dishonest.