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

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

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

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

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.

What a man is is the basis owhat he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.

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