The difference between the smartest dog and the stupidest man - say a Tennessee Holy Roller - is really very small.

Off goes the head of the king, and tyranny gives way to freedom. The change seems abysmal. Then, bit by bit, the face of freedom hardens, and by and by it is the old face of tyranny. Then another cycle, and another. But under the play of all these opposites there is something fundamental and permanent - the basic delusion that men may be governed and yet be free.

If a sense of duty tortures a man, it also enables him to achieve prodigies.

The physical business of writing is unpleasant to me, but the psychic satisfaction of discharging bad ideas in worse English makes me forget it.

There has been no organized effort to keep government down since Jefferson's day. Ever since then the American people have been bolstering up its powers and giving it more and more jurisdiction over their affairs. They pay for that folly in increased taxes and diminished liberties.

Pastor: One employed by the wicked to prove to them by his example that virtue doesn't pay.

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.