Lawyer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation.

Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma’ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world.

The extortions and oppressions of government will go on so long as such bare fraudulence deceives and disarms the victims; so long as they are ready to swallow the immemorial official theory that protesting against the stealings of the archbishop's secretary's nephew's mistress' illegitimate son is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

The State doesn't just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.

The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.

No man is worthy of unlimited reliance-his treason, at best, only waits for sufficient temptation.

If there had been any formidable body of cannibals in the country, Harry Truman would have promised to provide them with free missionaries fattened at the taxpayer's expense.