The bank - the monster has to have profits all the time. It can't wait. It'll die. No, taxes go on. When the monster stops growing, it dies. It can't stay one size.

Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.

Thou mayest rule over sin,' Lee. That's it. I do not believe all men are destroyed. I can name you a dozen who were not, and they are the ones the world lives by. It is true of the spirit as it is true of battles — only the winners are remembered.

The human is the only guilty animal.

The trash and litter of nature disappears into the ground with the passing of each year, but man's litter has more permanence.

It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me, that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to man.

Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans