A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.

A Progressive is one who is in favor of more taxes instead of less, more bureaus and jobholders, more paternalism and meddling, more regulation of private affairs and less liberty. In general, he would be inclined to regard the repeal of any tax as outrageous.

Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.

As long as you represent me as praising alcohol I shall not complain. It is, I believe, the greatest of human inventions, and by far - much greater than Hell, the radio or the bichloride tablet.

I never agree with Communists or any other kind of kept men.

Congress consists of one-third, more or less, scoundrels; two-thirds, more or less, idiots; and three-thirds, more or less, poltroons.

All talk of winning the people by appealing to their intelligence, of conquering them by impeccable syllogism, is so much moonshine.