All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling.

Every complex problem has a simple solution that doesn't work.

Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner

He sailed through American history like a steel ship loaded with monoliths of granite.

The worst government is the most moral.

The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.

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