For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble and necessary to the common weal, has no assurance that it will sustain him while he stands ready to practice it, or keep him out of the poorhouse when illness or age makes him idle.

All I ask is equal freedom. When it is denied, as it always is, I take it anyhow.

Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia.

Women have a hard enough time in this world: telling them the truth would be too cruel.

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

Philosophy, as the modern world knows it, is only intellectual club-swinging.

No healthy man, in his secret heart, is content with his destiny. He is tortured by dreams and images as a child is tortured by the thought of a state of existence in which it would live in a candy store and have two stomachs.