The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

America is a land where men govern, but women rule.

Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will keep their minds alive forever.

Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.

I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.

I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes.