There comes a day of public ceremonial, and a chance to make a speech.... A million voters with IQs below 60 have their ears glued to the radio. It takes four days' hard work to concoct a speech without a sensible word in it. Next a dam must be opened somewhere. Four dry Senators get drunk and make a painful scene. The Presidential automobile runs over a dog. It rains.

Los Angeles: nineteen suburbs in search of a metropolis.

It is the theory of all modern civilized governments that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen; it is the practice of all of them to limit its exercise, and sometimes very narrowly.

Richard Strauss--Old Home Week in Gomorrah

But I wonder where we will land if trial judges begin deciding that the fact that a man has committed an atrocious crime is proof sufficient that he is not responsible for his acts.

The most satisfying and ecstatic faith is almost purely agnostic. It trusts absolutely without professing to know at all.

Dachshund: A half-a-dog high and a dog-and-a-half long.