All American wars (except the Civil War) have been fought with the odds overwhelmingly in favor of the Americans. In the history of armed combat such affairs as the Mexican and Spanish-American Wars must be ranked, not as wars at all, but as organized assassinations. In the two World Wars, no American faced a bullet until his adversaries had been worn down by years of fighting others.

If I ever mary, it will be on a suddn impulse - as aman shoots himself

Evil: That which one believes of others. It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake

A dull, dark, depressing day in Winter: the whole world looks like a Methodist church at Wednesday night prayer meeting.

Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor.

There's really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.

Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance.