Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master.

The formula of the argument is simple and familiar: to dispose of a problem all that is necessary is to deny that it exists.

Government, like any other organism, refuses to acquiesce in its own extinction. This refusal, of course, involves the resistance to any effort to diminish its powers and prerogatives.

The great difficulty about keeping the Ten Commandments is that no man can keep them and be a gentleman.

The worst of marriage is that it makes a woman believe that all men are just as easy to fool.

During many a single week, I daresay, more money is spent in New York upon useless and evil things than would suffice to run the kingdom of Denmark for a year.

There's no underestimating the intelligence of the American public.