How do they taste? They taste like more.

War may make a fool of man, but it by no means degrades him; on the contrary, it tends to exalt him, and its net effects are much like those of motherhood on women.

There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.

The common man knows exactly what he wants...and deserves to get it good and hard.

In the United States...politics is purged of all menace, all sinister quality, all genuine significance, and stuffed with such gorgeous humors, such inordinate farce that one comes to the end of a campaign with one's ribs loose, and ready for King Lear, or a hanging, or a course of medical journals.

A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity.

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor