If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be ineligible for any office of trust in the United States.

After all, the world is not our handiwork, and we are not responsible for what goes on in it, save within very narrow limits.

Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted

In any combat between a rogue and a fool the sympathy of mankind is always with the rogue.

Christian - One who is willing to serve three Gods, but draws the line at one wife.

The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects ... what they thus lost they have never got back.

If what I may believe - about gall-stones, the Constitution, castor oil, or God - is conditioned by law, then I am not a free man.