The feelings that Beethoven put into his music were the feelings of a god. There was something olympian in his snarls and rages, and there was a touch of hellfire in his mirth.

The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.

The verdict of a jury is the a priori opinion of that juror who smokes the worst cigars.

The American people, I am convinced, really detest free speech. At the slightest alarm they are ready and eager to put it down.

If there were only three women left in the world, two of them would immediately convene a court-martial to try the other one.

If all the lawyers were hanged tomorrow, and their bones were sold to a mah jong factory, we'd all be freer and safer, and our taxes would be reduced by almost a half.

Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again.