Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.

As for boredom ... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done.

The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge.

If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it by a sign language. Whether your vehicle be commerce, literature, or politics, you can do nothing but raise signals, and make motions to the people.

A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind.

It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep.

The worst enemy of good government is not our ignorant foreign voter, but our educated domestic railroad president, our prominent business man, our leading lawyer.