I would rather starve and rot and keep the privilege of speaking the truth as I see it, than of holding all the offices that capital has to give from the presidency down.

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

Artists... disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church.

In the history of the United States, there is no continuity at all. You can cut through it anywhere and nothing on this side of the cut has anything to do with anything on the other side.

If our minds could get hold of one abstract truth, they would be immortal so far as that truth is concerned. My trouble is to find out how we can get hold of the truth at all.

You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!