A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century.

When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.

The harsh, useful things of the world, from pulling teeth to digging potatoes, are best done by men who are as starkly sober as so many convicts in the death-house, but the lovely and useless things, the charming and exhilarating things, are best done by men with, as the phrase is, a few sheets in the wind.

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

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.

For me to go into politics would be like sending a virgin into a house of ill-repute.

The believing mind reaches its perihelion in the so-called Liberals. They believe in each and every quack who sets up his booth inthe fairgrounds, including the Communists. The Communists have some talents too, but they always fall short of believing in the Liberals.