All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people

A congressman is a pig. The only way to get his snout from the trough is to rap it sharply with a stick.

Whenever a man reaches the top of the political ladder, his enemies unite to pull him down. His friends become critical and exacting.

One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.

As for piracy, I love to be pirated. It is the greatest compliment an author can have. The wholesale piracy of Democracy was the single real triumph of my life. Anyone may steal what he likes from me.